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From: NL4GOU@NL3GOU.ZH.NLD.EU
To  : HACK@NLD

Naar aanleiding van een mailtje van NL1RRS over een nieuw speeltje op internet.
Smurfen. Een ip-nr zichzelf laten pingen tot-ie crashed (ofzoow).
Ehm, deze "util" is trouwens al meer dan een jaar oud :)
Lees hier de gevolgen, als je een ISP probeert plat te leggen  ;-)

                  Canadian Teen Charged In 'Smurf' Attacks
                  (02/02/99, 4:44 p.m. ET)
                  By Andy Patrizio, TechWeb 

                  A Canadian teenager who quit school to spend
                  all day cruising the Internet has become one of
                  the first people busted for unleashing a "ping
                  flood" attack that brought down an ISP. 

                  The arrest last week was the result of a
                  cross-border teaming of the Royal Canadian
                  Mounted Police, the FBI, and administrators
                  from the Massachusetts Institute of
                  Technology. 

                  The investigation started after Internet
                  users on Sympatico, an ISP in Nova Scotia,
                  experienced a series of Internet slowdowns
                  two weeks ago. Each slowdown lasted for up
                  to a week. 

                  Administrators realized they were under a
                  "Smurf" attack. Smurf attacks are when a
                  malicious Internet user fools hundreds or
                  thousands of systems into sending traffic to
                  one location, flooding the location with pings.
                  The attack was eventually traced to the
                  teen's home. 

                  When the teenager -- whose name was not
                  released because of Canadian law -- was
                  arrested last week by the Royal Canadian
                  Mounted Police, they found him on his
                  computer at his home outside of Montreal. 

                  The teen told the Montreal Gazette he
                  dropped out of high school a few months ago
                  and spends most of his time hacking into
                  computers on the Internet. Among the systems
                  he said he has broken into is a U.S. Army
                  computer network. 

                  Sgt. Jacques Desilets, who is heading the
                  investigation for the Canadian police, said the
                  teen was able to enter some sites but didn't
                  get into everything he targeted. 

                  The teen targeted the Sympatico service
                  after it caught him in some of his hacking
                  activities and tried to shut him down. He
                  retaliated with the Smurf flood, which took
                  the whole system down for one day at one
                  point. 

                  When the Gazette warned his comments could
                  incriminate him, the teen, facing 10 years in
                  prison, did not express remorse for his
                  actions. "I don't care. I've told [the Royal
                  Canadian Mounted Police] already. I'll be a
                  hacker forever." 

                  He also issued the threat that if he does go to
                  jail, his cracker buddies would "disable
                  Montreal in one second." 

                  Desilets said he's not sure how seriously to
                  take the threat, but added that he is
                  surprised at the teen's defiance. The
                  computer of the accused teenager has been
                  seized. 

                  "I don't think he realizes what he's done or
                  has any inkling of the ramifications of what
                  he's done, and I don't think his parents do
                  either," he said. Under Canadian law, the
                  parents will face the charges as well. 

                  The cooperation between American and
                  Canadian officials was important in making
                  the bust, said Desilets. America and Canada
                  have traditionally worked together to
                  apprehend criminals in the past, but they are
                  getting much more organized when dealing
                  with computer crime, he said. 

                  "Because of the type of crime that hacking
                  represents, various law-enforcement agencies
                  have developed a close and good relationship
                  and cooperation, and it's something we had to
                  bring to this type of investigation," Desilets
                  said. 

                  It will still be a few months before charges
                  can be brought as Canadian, American, and
                  Norwegian officials work to uncover all of
                  the teen's tracks.  

Dusse...smurf voorzichtig..