SANS Insights on Critical Security Flaws Leading to Cyber Attacks

Jun 02, 2000 •

Anthony Pell

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denial of service security flaw cyber attack threat assessment SANS report system vulnerability

The SANS threat list has become the focus this week. "The majority of successful attacks on computer systems via the Internet can be traced to exploitation of one of a small number of security flaws, SANS said. Most . . . The SANS threat list has become the focus this week. "The majority of successful attacks on computer systems via the Internet can be traced to exploitation of one of a small number of security flaws, SANS said. Most of the systems compromised in the Solar Sunrise Pentagon hacking incident were attacked through a single vulnerability. A related flaw was exploited to break into many of the computers later used in massive denial-of-service attacks."

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