Hacking with a browser - something I've done quite a few times (all with good intentions of course, just ask www.cugy.net), but never really thought of it as hacking. This short little article [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,741368,00.asp] gives a little insight into how it's done. Not a lot of info, but interesting none the less.

Earlier today, for a couple of hours (maybe more), 3Cx.org was hit by a highly unsophisticated DoS (Denial of Service) attack. I was browsing the web and noticed things were VERY slow (slower than a modem connection!). At first I thought nothing of it, but 5 minutes into my browsing session, I started to wonder what the heck was going on. I ssh'ed over to the firewall and checked snort's alert logs for anything interesting... nothing. Next, I ran a sniffer on the WAN interface. I saw only http traffic... but it was A LOT of http traffic. Hmmm...

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