On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Zachary Uram wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> So is DDoS attacks biggest security threat out there?
No, most certainly intrusions are the biggest threat out there. Stopping
intrusions would naturally stop DDoS as well as other attacks.
> It seems to be a big problem. Especially for e-commerce and data
> warehousing/management systems where uptime = $$.
> So no one has developed effective countermeasures against
> arbitrary DDoS attacks? I guess if there was a large enough
> concerted attack that some group could even overload an entire
> ISP or an Internet backbone? Do we need laws to give law
> enforcement/ISPs more power to solve this.
For the most part, the attacks are already against the law- new laws don't
generally help for that. Making people upgrade and patch systems and
making software vendors produce more secure systems would be of much more
help. Reducing the social factors associated with people attacking
systems wouldn't be a bad thing either. So far not many people have stood
up to villify the bad guys- that needs to change.
Paul
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