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Denial of Service Threat: CERT Coordination Center Advisory

Sep 20, 2000 •

Anthony Pell

1 min read

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Batten down the hatches and hide the women and children. Internet Armageddon is on its way ... again. A recent advisory from the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie-Mellon University has raised the specter of an impending and massive denial of service . . . Batten down the hatches and hide the women and children. Internet Armageddon is on its way ... again. A recent advisory from the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie-Mellon University has raised the specter of an impending and massive denial of service attack that "poses a significant threat to Internet sites and the Internet infrastructure."

"This is just another case of freakin' FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) that has attracted the media like flies to a piece of rotting meat," laughed Cliff Robertson, an open source programmer.

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