From cypherpunks-errors@toad.com Thu Sep 12 18:16:43 1996 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:09:18 -0700 From: #6 <thevillage@void.gov> X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; U) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: PANIX.COM down: denial of service attack Content-Type> : > text/plain> ; > charset=us-ascii> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Content-Length: 969

WSJ 9/12/96

Paraphrasing:

Panix has been under attack for the last week by someone flooding their server with bogus "requests for information" [see below] ...

The attack(s):

* "Have rendered almost defenseless the small NY company" * "...began late Friday afternoon ... were still continung yesterday" * have targeted "computers that control WWW pages, store e-mail, and still others that link Internet addresses to Panix subscribers."

"The hacker [sic] has been sending up to 150 requests a second to Panix's computers, seeking to establish a connection ... the requests, presumably generated by a malicious computer program, contain fake Internet addresses, which the computer must sort out before they can discard them. The computers have choked under the deluge."

"As to who might be targeting Panix, the firm's Mr. Rosen speculated it ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It could, of course, also be someone, from a set of several million, that find Mr. Rosen to be such as odious prick that they did it just to drive him out of their misery. Just thinking out loud..

could be someone upset by the fact that the site hosts, free, the Web site for Voters Telecommunication Watch...."

-paul