Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

General discussion

ISPs take on DDoS attacks

Nov 17, 2003 12:31AM PST

Although the number and intensity of distributed denial-of-service attacks are on the rise, users are hard-pressed to find tangible new services to help thwart or defend against such assaults.

However, the largest ISPs are doing more behind the scenes and are promising new tools by next year that will help predict and better defend against worms and viruses that act like distributed DoS attacks and true distributed DoS strikes.

"There have been more attacks in the last six months than there have been in the last 10 years," said Hossein Eslambolchi, president of AT&T Labs, at a recent press conference.

Carnegie Mellon University's CERT Coordination Center for reporting Internet security problems backs up such claims. Through the end of September, there were 114,855 security breaches reported by users and ISPs, which is 32,761 more than all of 2002. These reports include all types of security policy violations from distributed DoS to hacker attacks.

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1117specialfocus.html

Discussion is locked