Cyber attacks -- both old and new

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http://www.zdnn.com/a/zdnn102099/2376768/

Cyber attacks -- both old and new
Coordinated computer attacks are beginning to surface as a security
issue, experts say. A 'handful' of reported attacks could just be the
beginning.

By Robert Lemos, ZDNet News
October 19, 1999 3:53 PM PT

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Over the past six weeks, U.S. network servers have come
under assault by a fundamentally new style of computer attack, said
experts here at the National Information Systems Security Conference.

Known as "distributed coordinated attacks," this new style is particularly
good at defeating present-day defenses against those intent on stopping
Internet traffic to a particular company or Internet service -- a result
known as denial of service.

"It's possible to detect the attack, but it is very hard to block it"
using current software, said Thomas Longstaff, senior technical researcher
for Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, during a
panel presentation Tuesday.

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