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

["Paolo" <dp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If that is the case then an ISP must have noticed a certain time of that day
when the traffic
started getting heavy(which they did)......the ISP should know where its
coming from and which accounts as you say fired up their e-mail and sent
that extra message to the server....but think about it....do you really
think people would actually simultaneously fire up their e-mail at the same
exact time ? and if that jewel (right now its known to be the ghost agent)
is automated and if thousands of  folks picked it up , somebody or  an ISP
or whoever should still know who or which accounts it came from........but
right now nobody knows....the FBI still does not have any lead or they are
just trying to keep it under wraps..............the only thing they know is
that it came from more than 1000+ pc's at the same time and they did not
sent e-mails they sent packets of messages and another speculation is that
this ghost agents were used to jump from 1 computer network to
another.....sorry if you did not like zdnet as my source.........i wonder
where you get your sources.......

why cant we all just get along anyway ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Barber" <MBOCEANSIDE@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: Denial of Service, Good for AS/400?


> 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.....
>
> They didn't... The most likely story is that a "few" hackers placed a
> time and date delayed message "sender" at some popular download site
> and thousands of folks over a period of time picked up that little
> jewell along with whatever code they were trying to get. At the
> appointed
> time and date as folks fired up their email, they ended up sending that
> one extra mail message and most didn't even know it. ZDNET is a very
> likely
> source of this sort of thing..."FREE SOFTWARE" just click on
> download......


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