The organization that reported the attacks, REN-ISAC, offers an interesting security service: It tracks traffic over the Abilene network backbone and identifies which network ports are receiving the heaviest traffic, providing links to current exploits that target vulnerable applications listening on those ports. Security experts are concerned that a beginning-of-the-year security scanning regimen at colleges will trigger more attacks.
One DDoS attack that does not seem to be fictional: The Storm worm, which creates spam botnets, has taken to counterattacking computers scanning networks it has infected by activating its zombies and launching attacks on them.
Skype ddos tool Patch#
The company claims the sheer volume of Windows systems rebooting after last week’s Patch Tuesday crippled its authentication servers. As it turns out, Skype said the problem was less exotic. In the absence of concrete information from the company, rumors initially flew that a band of criminal hackers had brought the service down through a massive DDoS attack. VoIP service Skype went down for a two-day outage late last week, knocking most of its 220 million subscribers off its network.
Plus: the latest networking product news. Skype responds to rumors that a band of criminal hackers brought down its VoIP service and more security updates.
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