A Brief History of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

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A Brief History of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

Tonight’s Talk

Denial of Service (DOS)

What is DDoS?

The Week of Famous DDoS Attacks

Early DDoS Tools (c. 1990? – 1997)

Smurf Attack (2-tier)

Modern DDoS Tools

DDoS Attacks (3-tier)

Why DDoS Tools Suck for Your Network

Trinoo – First Publicly Available DDoS Tool (c. 1997)

Tribe Flood Network (TFN) (c. 1998)

TFN2K (1999)

Stacheldraht “Barbed Wire” Fine German Engineering (late 1999)

What’s New in DDoS Tools (since February 2000)

Where to Find More Info on DDoS Tools

PPT Slide

How to Keep DDoS Tools from Getting You Down

Cisco Router Configuration Options

Tools to Help Detect DDoS Tools

Q & A

Thank you 

Author:                        Viki Navratilova
                                      Blue Meteor
Email Address:           vnavrat@pobox.com
Presentation Date:      August 22, 2000

Other information:
Presented at the August 2000 UniForum Chicago general meeting 

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