Case study:

• The Strange Tale of the Denial of Service Attacks against grc.com,
  by Steve Gibson, Gibson Research Corporation
  anatomy of a Distributed Denial of Service attack by a 13 years old hacker
• Gambling Sites, This Is A Holdup,
  by Stephen Baker in New York, with Brian Grow in Atlanta (Business Week), August 2004
  Organized criminal hackers threaten to paralyze their networks if they don't pay up

Topic notes

Relevant legal and regulatory documents: see chapter III-1: protecting digital information

Further Help:

• an initiative of the FTC against so called zombie networks:
  while this initiative explicitly targets spamming, zombie networks are commonly used in DOS attacks.
• from the Departement of Homeland Security: a fact sheet on US Government initiatives on Cyber Security,
  including the National Cyber Alert System operated by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT)
• from the Computer Security Resource Center: Computer Security Incident Handling Guide, Jan 2004
• from the CERT: Creating a Computer Security Incident Response Team: A Process for Getting Started, Aug 2002
• from Dave Dittrich, Senior Security Engineer and researcher at the Center for Information Assurance & Cybersecurity and the Information School (iSchool) at the University of Washington:
  resource page on DOS attacks
  similar resources are also available from his home page on relevant subjects from computer forensics to cyberwarfare
• from the Open Web Application Security Project: advice on web application denial of service

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