DoS Attacks Go For the Throat
Of late, the hacker community has taken to discussing 'router protocol attacks' in listservs, Usenet, and at conferences. Attacks against routers can have serious consequences for the Internet at large. Routers can be used for direct attacks against the routing protocols that interconnect the networks comprising the Internet, therefore causing serious service availability issues on a large scale. By dealing with such threats to their infrastructures, network managers will be protecting both their own interests and the interests of all networks to which they connect.
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