[31184] in North American Network Operators' Group
Increase in DDOS activity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Houle)
Fri Sep 15 12:39:16 2000
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:37:21 -0400
From: Kevin Houle <kjh@cert.org>
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The CERT/CC has published an Incident Note, IN-2000-10,
discussing widespread exploitation of vulnerabilities
in rpc.statd and wu-ftpd. This activity is significant
to network operators because we have seen an increase
in DDoS tool deployment related to this activity.
The Incident Note can be found at:
http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2000-10.html
Regards,
Kevin
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