>Not exactly vfp, but can someone explain exactly how these "hackers" are bringing the major sites down? The news reports are confusing - one report looks like slamming, another more like SQL overloads, another "death-by-pinging", another hacking into a network... Or is this still something of a secret?
Hi Bruce, here are some articles via
www.slashdot.orghttp://slashdot.org/articles/00/02/08/1338245.shtmlhttp://slashdot.org/articles/00/02/08/0344217.shtmlThe attach method is referred to as "denial of service". Really just overwheling the server with typical data request until it can no longer to respond to any of them.
