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The University of Minnesota DDoS: a category-defining incident

2 August 1999

Last week, a single computer at the University of Minnesota was knocked off the network for two days by a coordinated attack from over 200 compromised hosts. This is the first widely-publicised distributed denial of service attack. The defensive implications are profound and mostly unanswered.

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Trinoo: distributed denial of service has arrived

14 June 1999

A new DDoS tool called Trinoo has been seen in the wild. It is the first widely-discussed example of a coordinated multi-host denial of service attack. The defensive response is fundamentally unsolved.

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