Linked by David Adams on Tue 7th Oct 2008 15:20 UTC
"Denial of Service attacks arenât new, yet they persist in being effective methods of denying access to resources on the Internet. Now meet Sockstress, the newest version of DoS attacks and potentially the most devastating of the bunch."
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2008-10-08
It's actually very serious. What makes it new is that it's easy to do and does not take much resources to accomplish the DoS attack. It is basically a way to get around the problem syn cookies was supposed to fix. If you want to learn more about it I suggest listening to episode #164 of Security Now. http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm