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Security » John Leyden [02 May 2000]
Deadly hacking tool discovered
Security experts have warned that hackers are developing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) tool that could be even more devastating than those used to paralyse eBay, Yahoo and other major internet sites in February.
The tool, called Mstream, joins Trinoo, TFN2K, Stacheldraht and other programs that can be used to launch DDoS attacks.
Using these programs, a hacker can make infected hosts send a series of messages to a target computer. The volume of messages arriving at the same time is enough to overwhelm that server, making a website inaccessible.
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