Smurfs. Network Security. Evil.

Sad that I am *STILL* seeing that companies (large, small, and in the middle) are not protected from smurf attacks. And I don't mean the little blue fellas, either.

Defining Strategies to Protect Against TCP SYN
Denial of Service Attacks
http://cio.cisco.com/warp/public/707/4.html

Defining Strategies to Protect Against UDP Diagnostic
Port DoS Attacks
http://cio.cisco.com/warp/public/707/3.html

For the love of all things IT ...if you are at risk on either of the above, FIX IT NOW.

Please ...pretty please ...with sugar ...