[65285] in Cypherpunks
PANIX.COM down: denial of service attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (#6)
Thu Sep 12 12:15:58 1996
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:09:18 -0700
From: #6 <thevillage@void.gov>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
WSJ 9/12/96
Paraphrasing:
Panix has been under attack for the last week by someone flooding
their server with bogus "requests for information" [see below] ...
The attack(s):
* "Have rendered almost defenseless the small NY company"
* "...began late Friday afternoon ... were still continung yesterday"
* have targeted "computers that control WWW pages, store e-mail, and
still others that link Internet addresses to Panix subscribers."
"The hacker [sic] has been sending up to 150 requests a second to
Panix's computers, seeking to establish a connection ... the requests,
presumably generated by a malicious computer program, contain fake
Internet addresses, which the computer must sort out before they can
discard them. The computers have choked under the deluge."
"As to who might be targeting Panix, the firm's Mr. Rosen speculated it
could be someone upset by the fact that the site hosts, free, the Web
site for Voters Telecommunication Watch...."
