Re: This is a must read document. It will freak you out

[Jonas Luster]

* Zachary Uram sez:

: Oh I see.
: So a machine(s) will be compromised through some mechanism
: (trojan, virus, setuid exploit) and the intruder will setup
: programs which are then uses to take control of machine and
: employ in his orchestrated DoS atatcks yes?

Not necessarily. Let's keep in mind that DoS means 'Denial of Service'.
This will in most cases but does not necessarily, go along with high
packet loads. At one conference this year I was witness to some guy
showing off his 'Ciscill' program. He was basically able to kill Cisco
linecards with packets less than 400k.

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