jpalminteri
06-11-01, 11:12 AM
I received this excerpted email at work through official US Government channels and I thought it would be interesting to all who participate in this forum.
:)
Subject: Re: SANS NewsBites Vol. 3 Num. 23
If you have not already checked this out please do.......
- From time to time a "must read" document is published. Steve Gibson,
author of ShieldsUp! and one of the gurus of Windows security lived
through a major distributed denial of service attack and traced the
attackers. He wrote an extremely readable tutorial on it. It's long,
and worth every minute. Just one of his many interesting tidbits:
Windows 2000 and XP, unlike their predecessors, have enormous capacity
to generate malicious Internet traffic with spoofed IP addresses.
http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
Great in-depth insight into a dark world.....
You might want to check out the recommended FREE personal firewall called Tiny Personal Firewall (available at http://www.downloads.com )if you are connected to a cable modem at home. Also available for free is zoneAlarm 2.6 at http://www.zonelabs.com !
:)
Subject: Re: SANS NewsBites Vol. 3 Num. 23
If you have not already checked this out please do.......
- From time to time a "must read" document is published. Steve Gibson,
author of ShieldsUp! and one of the gurus of Windows security lived
through a major distributed denial of service attack and traced the
attackers. He wrote an extremely readable tutorial on it. It's long,
and worth every minute. Just one of his many interesting tidbits:
Windows 2000 and XP, unlike their predecessors, have enormous capacity
to generate malicious Internet traffic with spoofed IP addresses.
http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
Great in-depth insight into a dark world.....
You might want to check out the recommended FREE personal firewall called Tiny Personal Firewall (available at http://www.downloads.com )if you are connected to a cable modem at home. Also available for free is zoneAlarm 2.6 at http://www.zonelabs.com !