How hack attacks are getting smarter

COMMENTARY-- Last month, without much fanfare, Carnegie Mellon University's CERT Coordination Center released a white paper on current trends in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. While much of the report merely chronicles the alerts and warnings the organization has published over the last two years, a few pages toward the end--where the authors point out new tactics taken by malicious users--are downright troubling.

For those of you who don't know, a DoS attack is an event that prevents users from accessing a Web site. It is often the result of hundreds of computers overwhelming that site with bogus traffic.

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