Sobig.f surprise attack today

Thu Aug 28 20:58:55 UTC 2003

At 11:47 PM 28/08/2003 +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
>connections has passed the dialup ones a few years ago. Dialup users also 
>cannot generate any
>significant DDoS traffic even if combined by a factor of 10000.

a)http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2003/papers.html#p75-kuzmanovic
b)Trinity v3/Stacheldraht can do wonders against the CPU of many cisco routers
c)'dialup' and the way IPs are handed out are often the same for DSL users 
who connect on demand.
d)See the recent thread on rebooting TNTs and 5300s....

         ---Mike 