A thousand hands make light work
As if a planet filled with unsecured Microsoft Windows machines isn't enough of an arsenal, the latest weapon deployed in distributed denial-of-service attacks seems to be peer-to-peer networks,
Netcraft reports. 'In these attacks, large numbers of client computers running P2P software are tricked into requesting a file from the intended target of the DDoS, allowing the attacker to use the P2P network to overwhelm the target site with traffic,' according to the 'crafters.
--Posted by Joab Jackson
Posted by Joab Jackson on May 24, 2007 at 9:39 AM