[Reformatted] CERT DoS'd

[Talley Anonymous Remailer]

hakkin at sarin.com (Khoder bin Hakkin) writes:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20011205/tc/national_computer-security_site_attacked_1.html

> National computer-security site attacked
>
> By Robert Lemos CNET News.com
>
> The Computer Emergency Response Team's Coordination Center, an
> important national clearinghouse for computer-security information,
> came under attack Wednesday, leaving its main Web site only
> intermittently reachable.
>
> The so-called denial-of-service attack didn't affect the group's
> ability to push security incident information to its members, but made
> public access to its sites a crapshoot.
>
> "We are working with our service providers to resolve this problem,"
> Bill Pollak, public relations coordinator for the CERT Coordination
> Center, said in a statement.
>
> A denial-of-service attack can take one of two forms: a flood of data
> that overwhelms the Web server or the bandwidth leading to the server,
> or a specific command crafted to disable critical servers or Internet
> routers. The CERT Coordination Center (news - web sites) would not
> identify which type matched the attack it was suffering from.
>
> The group, based at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Penn.,
> coordinates the communications among the myriad response teams
> scattered among U.S. universities, companies and government agencies.
>
> It has public Web sites to inform both members and non-members of
> threats but also has private networks capable of alerting members to
> high-priority computer-security incidents.
>
> Officials at the CERT Coordination Center would not give details
> of the attack but earlier acknowledged that such attacks are not
> uncommon. In May, the group suffered a similar attack.
>
> "We get attacked every day," Richard D. Pethia, director of the
> Networked Systems Survivability Program at Carnegie Mellon's Software
> Engineering Institute, said in a May interview. "The lesson to be
> learned here is that no one is immune to these kinds of attacks. They
> cause operational problems, and it takes time to deal with them."
>
> The CERT Coordination Center is part of Carnegie Mellon's Software
> Engineering Institute.