Re: Denial of Service, Good for AS/400?

["PAOLO YABUT" <dp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thats why i think to better understand a hacker and what a hacker can do is
........ you have to be one (kind of like the FACEOFF movie)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Lewis" <clewis@iquest.net>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: Denial of Service, Good for AS/400?


> Bob,
>
> Curious as to if it IS hard to prevent (NO offense intended) because I
have heard
> several folks from security companies saying that there was NO WAY Yahoo
should
> have been down for 3 1/2 hours or whatever it was and that those folks
that had
> gotten hit by the DoS were asking for it because they had spent all of
their time
> on everything BUT good security for things like this. These folks either
didn't
> elaborate or what they said wasn't repeated so I wasn't sure on this (?)
>
> Thanks !
>
> Chuck
>
> Bob Crothers wrote:
>
> > Without a doubt.
> >
> > The insidious thing about a DOS attack is that the hacker is doing
exactly
> > what the site wants. generating traffic.  What makes it bad is that the
> > hacker is generating way more traffic (and useless traffic) then the
site
> > can handle.  Makes it very hard to prevent.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On
> > Behalf Of Pike4@ix.netcom.com
> > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 8:52 AM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Denial of Service, Good for AS/400?
> >
> > During the recent outrages at Yahoo and the others, by hackers who as I
> > understand it, overload the web servers, with excessive email, I was
> > wondering if this could happen to an AS/400 web server?
> >
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