Re: Denial of Service, Good for AS/400?

[John Hall <jhall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is not that there are 1000+ hackers doing it.  It could be just one. 
The way it works is to create a virus that places itself on thousands of
PC's this virus waits for one controlling computer to tell it to
"attack" a web site.  So one hacker tells one computer to tell thousands
to hit a site.  There is no protection against this type of attack. 
Typically these are legitimate requests from legitimate IP addresses. 
What shuts down the site is the extremely heavy traffic.  No matter how
big your internet connection nor how much processing power you have
behind it a hacker can collect enough pc's to swamp you.  

This type of attack will work on any system.  Some systems may crash and
others may not but either way Denial of Service will take place.  

John Hall
Home Sales Co.

PAOLO YABUT wrote:
> 
> BOB,
>         I think they were prepare it just hard to fight something that you
> cannot see...specially if its coming from multiple places (from what Zdnet
> say at least 1000+ pc s attacked at the same time...its intimidating to
> think that you have 1000+ hackers doing this from all over the world
> conducting this attacks simultaneously.....
>
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