[Infowarrior] - More on...FW: Researchers Challenge DOS Attack Data

[Richard Forno]

(c/o DK)

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The paper:

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~zmao/Papers/spoof.pdf

(some journalists can't tell the difference between an IP and an AS)

At 08:19 AM 9/7/2006 -0400, Richard Forno wrote:
>(c/o DK)
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>http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=103049&f_src=darkreading_sect
>ion_296
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>Researchers Challenge DOS Attack Data
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>SEPTEMBER 6, 2006 | Conventional wisdom about the sources and causes of
>denial-of-service (DOS) attacks -- and the best methods for preventing them
>-- could be completely wrong, a group of researchers said this week.
>
>Researchers at the University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon University, and
>AT&T Labs-Research said they have completed a study that debunks the
>widely-held belief that DOS attack traffic is usually generated by a large
>number of attack sources disguised by spoofed IP addresses.
>