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Foil 23 Combining Denial of Service with more Malicious Attack

From Remarks on Internet and Java Security Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Geoffrey Fox, Mehmet Sen
1 So a common strategy is to create a "denial of service" diversion
  • As NPAC has noted, you set up an agent which floods main enterprise Web Server with requests
  • Web Server grinds to a halt and all system people go to look at it and bring it up
2 In the confusion, you mount a malicious attack -- perhaps on a different machine -- using well known bugs in UNIX ........
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