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...next three days were marked by serial slowdowns at some of the biggest sites on the Web: Amazon.com eBay, CNN.com (owned by Time Warner, parent company of TIME), ZDNet, ETrade, Excite. Like so many virtual vandals before him, the phantom foe clearly craved attention. He got it in the shape of a front-page media frenzy, a full-scale FBI investigation and a hastily convened White House conference on Web hacking. And yet he stubbornly refused to show up at his own party, prompting PC paranoia and all manner of conspiracy theories...
...denial-of-service attacks last week against a number of popular websites, including web portal Yahoo as well as retailers Ebay and Buy.com, were a reminder of the need for security tools to keep pace with the development of new technologies. The attacks were the more frightening because they were not particularly ingenious; indeed, they could have been executed by almost anyone...
...attackers brought down eBay and other sites using a method called "denial of service," or DOS. On a regular computer network, one computer sends a packet, or a bit of information, to another computer, and waits for a "ping" in return to verify that the information was received...
...hackers pretended to be sending messages from the sites they intended to attack. When many computers simultaneously responded to sites like eBay, the overload of information shut down the real, unsuspecting sites...
This method also amplified the amount of information arriving at eBay, making the assault even more powerful...