[Reformatted] CERT DoS'd

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Khoder bin Hakkin) writes:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20011205/tc/national_computer-security_site_attacked_1.html

> National computer-security site attacked
>
> By Robert Lemos CNET News.com
>
> 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 crapshoot.
>
> "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 (news - web sites) 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 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 attack but earlier 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.

CERT DoS'd

[Khoder bin Hakkin]

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20011205/tc/national_computer-security_site_attacked_1.html

National computer-security site attacked

By Robert Lemos CNET News.com

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
crapshoot.

 "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 (news - web sites) 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 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 attack but earlier
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.