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Vendors scramble to deny denial-of-service attacks

By Jeff Caruso on Fri, 10/03/08 - 11:35am.
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Earlier this week, security researchers revealed that they have discovered a way to take down Internet-connected servers with denial-of-service attacks.

The IDG News Service quotes a researcher as saying, "This appears not to be a single bug, but in fact at least five, and maybe as many as 30 different potential problems."

Vendors are now working to fix these problems with all due haste.

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Jeff Caruso is Executive Online Editor at Network World.