Chapter 11. Recent Break-Ins

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In this chapter, recent successful break-ins and DoS attacks are investigated and defenses planned. The topics covered include:

• "Fragmentation Attacks" on page 389

• "IP Masquerading Fails for ICMP" on page 391

• "The Ping of Death Sinks Dutch Shipping Company" on page 392

• "Captain, We're Being Scanned! (Stealth Scans)" on page 392

• "Cable Modems: A Cracker's Dream" on page 393

• "Using Sendmail to Block E-Mail Attacks" on page 393

• "Sendmail Account Guessing" on page 394

• "The Mysterious Ingreslock" on page 395

• "You're Being Tracked" on page 395

• "Distributed Denial of Service (Coordinated) Attacks" on page 397

• "Stealth Trojan Horses" on page 400

• "Linuxconf via TCP Port 98" on page 403

• "Evil HTML Tags and Script" on page 405

• "Format Problems with syslog()" on page 406

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