Hackers forming a Zombie army?

November 10, 2000 - 9:00pm

The nation's government-funded computer security watchdog issued a warning Friday that computer intruders have taken control of hundreds of computers connected to the Internet. The attackers are in a position to launch a serious attack, according to the CERT Coordination Center, which said that the situation "poses a significant threat to Internet sites and the Internet infrastructure.

Computer hackers are exploiting two fairly common vulnerabilities in Unix computer systems discovered since July. "In about 100 cases since then, intruders have used the vulnerabilities to install distributed denial-of-service tools on machines", according to CERT Incident Response Team Leader Kevin Houle. "Those tools figured prominently in February's well-publicized attacks on big-name Web sites like Yahoo.com, Amazon.com, and CNN.com".

"New reports are coming in at the rate of about two to five per day", he said. "In one incident, we recorded over 560 hosts at 220 Internet sites around the world as being a
part of a Tribe Flood Network 2000 DDoS network," Poule said.

Tribal Flood networks allow a single attacker to control an army of "zombie" computers
remotely; the bandwidth of all those computers can then be brought to bear on a single target Web site, "flooding" it with traffic and effectively shutting it down.

Comments

Hackers forming a Zombie army?

It is interesting about what they do, but remember, any major destruction will cause panick and unless these people who choose to so blatantly disregard other's porperty are masters of disguise the public will find you and nothing will save thy.

Hackers forming a Zombie army?

Hackers are the gate keepers to the internet with out them people wouldn't know half the information they do know. So if you got a problem with hackers just tell me your e-mail address and I'll show you what a hacker can do.

Hackers forming a Zombie army?

Ok 1st of all HaCkeRs RULE! we are the future and we are the past we rule the net with a iorn fist you get one hacker and 20 more pop up in his/her place you cannot stop us and never will so dont EVER EVER! bring on your shit or it is going to get a lil nasty ;)

Hackers forming a Zombie army?

This supposed "zombie army" is not a good idea. The govt, under the leadership of the Democratic party, has been looking for an excuse to impose strict controls over who has access to the net and what they can access. If instances like this continue then the business world will put pressure on the govt to tighten the reigns. This can only be detrimental to all of us who simply want to enjoy the free form flow of information that is the internet.

Hackers forming a Zombie army?

First of all, that govt problem mentioned by RK is only threatening you US dudes. I have nothing to worry about here in Finland!-)And secondly, to all of you lame-wannabehackers out there, go home and quit that scriptkid-nonsense.And to conclude, I completely agree that hackers have a major role to play in the development of the 'net. Besides, the words "shut down" and "the internet" really can't even exist in the same sentence, the whole idea of shutting down the 'net is completely absurd - comparable to the newbiecomments like "my dad just bought the internet so I can play Quake".I'm not encouraging anyone to commit crimes, but imho hackers (and crackers and the like) are an important part of the IT community. Besides, who would make a better security consult than an experienced hacker?

Hackers forming a Zombie army?

Hey I'm taking offense to these comments. I am a wannabe hacker and even I would never use DoS attacks. ]What is the point of getting a criminal record over that? Some people actually use those sites, and this kind of shinagigins makes the rest of us look bad.Heres a quote to those fools: "Wow, I'm the idiot who attacked Yahoo. Now I have to share a cell with Bubba, who quotes from deliverance, eats feces and fights with his imaginary playmate Vince"

Hackers forming a Zombie army?

In the name of all that is good, hackers are ment to reveal what "they" don't want you to know. This noble purpose has been lost in the last 10 years so please - we don't have the right to forget! It is not the individual interest first but that of the principle.

Hackers forming a Zombie army?

This is so f'ing stupid. I thought the idea of hacking was to actually have a point behind it like showing people secret files that the gov don't want you to know about or to make a point about something you disagree with. The only site that deserves these DoS attacks would be the RiAA for trying to ban napster or a child porn site. Where is the point in shutting down CNN for a few hours these idiots are giving hackers a worse name than they already have. (Please note I am in no way connected to ex-pop group The KLF)

Hackers forming a Zombie army?

Poetic Justice it can be called. I have been around since before the begining of the internet and back then hackers had a purpose and were elite. But now days since more of the hackers trade secrets have been revealed to others. Some of the loose screws or internet weirdos as they could be called, have learned how to hack sites. And are destorying anything that was once thought of as being noble or elite, when it comes to hacking. So the next you want to brag or start a site that reveals how to hack, just remember no one can be trusted and your better off keeping it to yourself about what you know!!!

Hackers forming a Zombie army?

I Think this is a joke almost one as much as youd like to thinks its totaly anonomis the net is not there are several good ways to trak things! 2. if these fools wana do stupid shit like that then let em Its there life......till they go to jail and 3.hacking is an art form of trying to get into files get what you want and get out undetected what there doing is nothing but cyber terorism!! and thats no art you can down load all kinds of stuff to do that or just write a program

Hackers forming a Zombie army?

Hacking in its purest form is a true noble pursuit for the elite. All the DoS and scripters need to get a life. They are wannabes. The world is full of wannabes. Learn to code yourself and do things undetected and you will know and learn what being a REAL hacker is. Destruction without cause and without bringing enlightenment to the masses of things perpetrated against them is for the pathetic losers. So be a REAL hacker, or quit f***ing with stuff you don't know enough about.

Hackers forming a Zombie army?

PS- why bring Napster and Metallica into this- they have nothing to do with hacking. So quit joining the 2 issues. Besides which- there is a difference between stealing a song and stealing someone's vision of what they want to be released to the world as their accomplishment whether it is music, art, or software. I haven't heard any TRUE metallica fan complain about their views, only whiners affected by what they have become involved in with the MP3 dilemma. If it wasn't them it would have been someone else involved, so get over it.

Hackers forming a Zombie army?

Nice response from most submitters, my point is on Metallica, i mean the point that they haven't banned metallica songs from the internet is good, eventually someone is going to find out how to get these songs, whether it is illegal or legal.Ofcourse Metallica would be pissed off, i mean they are one of the worlds LEADING Bands, yet Napster allows users to download these songs!You cannot stop it, as it is simple as renaming the file!

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