Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4136-1009517798-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:38:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10340 invoked by uid 510); 28 Dec 2001 05:37:03 -0000 Received: from n1.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.51) by all.net with SMTP; 28 Dec 2001 05:37:03 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4136-1009517798-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [216.115.97.189] by n1.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Dec 2001 05:36:38 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 28 Dec 2001 05:36:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 64861 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2001 05:36:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Dec 2001 05:36:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.125.69) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Dec 2001 05:36:37 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fBS5bBW03946 for iwar@onelist.com; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:37:11 -0800 Message-Id: <200112280537.fBS5bBW03946@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:37:11 -0800 (PST) Subject: [iwar] [fc:Attack.limits.national.computer-security.site] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Attack limits national computer-security site By Robert Lemos, MSNBC, 12/27/2001 <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/668019.asp">http://www.msnbc.com/news/668019.asp> Dec. 5 - The Computer Emergency Response Team's Coordination Center, an important national clearinghouse for computer-security information, came under attack Wednesday, leaving its main Web site only intermittently reachable. THE SO-CALLED denial-of-service attack didn't affect the group's ability to push security incident information to its members, but made public access to its sites a crap shoot. "We are working with our service providers to resolve this problem," Bill Pollak, public relations coordinator for the CERT Coordination Center, said in a statement. A denial-of-service attack can take one of two forms: a flood of data that overwhelms the Web server or the bandwidth leading to the server, or a specific command crafted to disable critical servers or Internet routers. The CERT Coordination Center would not identify which type matched the attack it was suffering from. The group, based at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Penn., coordinates the communications among the myriad response teams scattered among U.S. universities, companies and government agencies. It has both public Web sites to inform both members and non-members of threats but also has private networks capable of alerting members to high-priority computer-security incidents. Officials at the CERT Coordination Center would not give details of the current attack but previously acknowledged that such attacks are not uncommon. In May, the group suffered a similar attack. "We get attacked every day," Richard D. Pethia, director of the Networked Systems Survivability Program at Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute, said in a May interview. "The lesson to be learned here is that no one is immune to these kinds of attacks. They cause operational problems, and it takes time to deal with them." The CERT Coordination Center is part of Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute. Copyright © 1995-2001 CNET Networks, Inc. All rights reserved ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Send FREE Holiday eCards from Yahoo! Greetings. http://us.click.yahoo.com/IgTaHA/ZQdDAA/ySSFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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