
Introduction
You are probably familiar with the attacks of February 2000 on eBay,Yahoo,
Amazon, and other major e-commerce and non–e-commerce Web sites.Those
attacks were all distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and all occurred at the
server level.Those same attacks moved hacking to center stage in the IT community
and in the press. With that spotlight comes an increased awareness by information
security specialists, project managers, and other IT professionals. More and more
companies are looking to tighten up security. As a result, hackers have become more
creative and more talented, raising the bar on security from a network administration ...