Star Sockstress: a New and Effective DoS Attack
Linked by David Adams on Tue 7th Oct 2008 15:20 UTC
Privacy, Security, Encryption "Denial of Service attacks aren’t 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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RE: New? No one really knows
by Fahrbot on Wed 8th Oct 2008 07:29 UTC in reply to "New? No one really knows"
Fahrbot
Member since:
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

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Soulbender Member since:
2005-08-18

Oh yeah, GRC. A truly reliable source for security information. Gibson would never be caught hyping anything (raw sockets will doom the internet!) out of proportion.

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zombie process Member since:
2005-07-08

Steve is w/o a doubt a kook, but he's also usually correct, even when he drastically overstates things. An unpopular opinion, I'm aware.

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