Big debate over small packets

Big debate over small packets
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-09-07

Fernando Gont is nothing if not tenacious.

Big debate over small packets 2005-09-08
Don Parker (1 replies)

First off, kudos to Fernando Gont for doing this research, and coming up with some interesting conclusions. The reality of it though is that attack is very much in line with the TCP reset attack that was highlighted at Cansecwest in 2004. What they both have in common is that while technically possi...

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Re: Big debate over small packets 2005-09-15
easternerd (1 replies)

Fantastic Research by Fernando Gont!, Though this might make an impact, TCP RST attacks were much more serious and had an immediate and direct effect on the Internet's Backbone , essentially BGP.

I feel this too has a potential if handled by the eliteScripters on future variants of Self Replicatin...

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Re: Re: Big debate over small packets 2005-09-15
Anonymous (1 replies)

I have to say that if the TCP RST attack was all that effective then it would have been put into use a while ago. Things are never all that easy really when it comes to these types of attacks. Even less so when you are talking about BGP. How many routers can one attacker target after all? There are ...

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Re: Re: Re: Big debate over small packets 2005-09-16
thekatix

Unfortunately, "good" malicious hacks aren't about quantity, they're about quality. It's not about the number of routers you can take down, but which ones...

Also, if nothing else, the work we're seeing here is laying the groundwork for other security discoveries much like peopel like Aleph1 and m...

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Big debate over small packets 2005-09-09
Anonymous

Wasn't this posted to http://all.net/ under "Managing Newtwork Security" in "August, 1995 - ICMP"?...

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Big debate over small packets 2005-09-09
Anonymous

In the security field, we should always ask ourselves 2 questions to determine whether we're as secure as we think we are.

1) Is it necessary?

2) Is it vulnerable?

1) If you don't need it, you shouldn't have it. Extra "features" are what get us into trouble by adding more areas for exploitat...

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Big debate over small packets 2005-09-09
SirM

well i have just finished the first course for Ciscos CCNA, so im no expert but we studied all the protocols, pro and cons, and i always asked myself: "How come they dont fix all these security flaws that TCP/IP has?" i mean i've read so many articles about all the exploits and ways to get around se...

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Big debate over small packets 2005-09-10
Anonymous

I believe as a Power User and free lance programmer, is these issues need to be addressed early in the industry before services are too dependent on technogly that has serous flaws that haven't been addressed. We should be serous in considering all threats, grant there are more threats to Computers ...

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Big debate over small packets 2006-01-26
Paulo

I don't care about how many pleople understands or not the entire scope of this problem, But I can't accept why companies, vendors, security related researchers, etc refuses to accept this as a real problem considering this guy's draft, in wich he propose the SOLUTION to this.

Coming from them, I...

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