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...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...
Despite news reports that insinuated Stanford computers were central to last week's attacks, which brought down popular sites like eBay.com, Amazon.com and Yahoo!, Stanford computer security officers say the university's involvement was minimal...
...week ago I heard Yahoo had bought his Internet startup for $135 million. I wonder what he says...
...school, and then there are the insurgents. The former tends to view the latter with some suspicion, and perhaps a bit of jealousy. Such was the case Wednesday; establishment hackers are up in arms over the media attention paid to Monday and Tuesday's attacks on Yahoo, eBay, CNN and Buy.com. "We find that there are already ample words in the English language to describe such miscreants and call upon the media to define them by their actions, as they are all we know them by at this point," fumed the editors of 2600, The Hacker Quarterly...
...love-hate relationship with web site designers, who grudgingly appreciate hackers' talent for pinpointing serious security lapses. "Hacking is generally accepted to be the arena of very smart people," says Stuart McClure, president of Rampart Security Group in Irvine. "Denial of service attacks, like what happened to Yahoo and eBay, are seen as bottom-of-the-barrel assaults; they don't require a lot of brains...