Well..finally a sensible article in the mainstream media... read about how the FBI became Microsoft's latest marketing agency...
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/taylor/article/0,9565,169678,00.htm l
The article is about the Code Red worm's publicity..
regards, kishor
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Sometime today, Kishor Bhagwat wrote:
Well..finally a sensible article in the mainstream media... read about how the FBI became Microsoft's latest marketing agency...
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/taylor/article/0,9565,169678,00.html
But we're not talking the virtual version of HIV here. There was no malicious intent. The greatest effect so far noted in Code Red's last go-round two weeks ago was that the White House website, the ultimate target of its initial attacks, had to change its IP address. [snip]
Shouldn't the IP be looked up from DNS during an attack? Why not attack www.whitehouse.gov instead of a hard-coded IP address? Are lookups too expensive for a DoS attack?
Manish J.
Sometime on Aug 6, Manish Jethani assembled some asciibets to say:
weeks ago was that the White House website, the ultimate target of its initial attacks, had to change its IP address. [snip]Shouldn't the IP be looked up from DNS during an attack? Why not attack www.whitehouse.gov instead of a hard-coded IP address? Are lookups too expensive for a DoS attack?
If you really want the attack to work, then yes. If your intent instead is to show that pseudo random number generators, when started with a well chosen seed at different times will all converge onto a single value, then it's the beauty of the mathematics that comes into play. DNS lookups would be plain cheating, and ugly. This wasn't plain math though, more of brute force.
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