The cyberattacks on Estonia, like most other ambitious campaigns, unfolded across multiple fronts. The foot soldiers were called script kiddies — relatively unsophisticated troublemakers who copied programs line for line off hacker Web sites. Their primary weapon was the ping attack, a simple request for a response from a Web server, repeated hundreds of times per second. When deployed by masses of attackers, the pings could overwhelm a server.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 23:30:00 +0000