FYI: Edupage excerpt of a WSJ article.
- paul
"This is the first major attack of a kind that I believe to be the final
Internet security problem," says a Lucent Technologies Internet
security expert, who says he "has been waiting" for just such an event.
This and similair "ping" floods are somewhat common. We have seen 2
incidents in the past 6 months. Both times hackers used our system to
initial ping floods against other ISP's, effectivly shutting down thier T1
connections. We did not see the floods since our 10Mb connection absorbed
the attack as normal traffic stats. Alex Rosen was quoted in the
Washington Post that this was not the publicity he wanted to have, but
believed such incidents needed to be exposed.
/stb