[27056] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Yahoo! Lessons Learned
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron Buchalski)
Tue Feb 8 13:15:14 2000
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From: "Ron Buchalski" <rbuchals@hotmail.com>
To: kgraham@ican.net, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 10:09:51 PST
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Ken writes:
>From: "K. Graham" <kgraham@ican.net>
>To: nanog@merit.edu
>Subject: RE: Yahoo! Lessons Learned
>Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 09:47:58 -0700
>
<snip>
>It was mentioned that this was a co-ordinated attack. That meant a bit of
>planning and access to various machines. As to the number of attackers
>only Yahoo's internal people may know. Even then it may have only been one
>individual with a script that accessed many locations at one time and
>initiated the commands. There is the ability to do such an attack.
It's an interesting coincidence that, at roughly the same time that the
attack was taking place, we were sitting in the NANOG meeting listening to a
presentation on Distributed Denial of Service attacks. It's definitely a
major threat...
-rb
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