Craig A. Huegen <chuegen@cisco.com>
Network-Based Denial of Service Attacks
SANS ‘98 7
“Smurf” and “Fraggle” trend
•Smurf attacks are still “in style” for attackers -
Fraggle released March ‘98
•Significant advances made in reducing the effects
Education campaigns through the use of
white paper
and other education by NOCs has reduced the average “smurf” or “fraggle”
attack from
80 Mbits/sec to less than 5 Mbits/sec
•Most attacks can still inundate a T1 link