I believe it is a type of DNS attack. I think what she did, was set up a program to send a massive email request attack against the purchasing server. The return address for the emails pointed back to the purchasing server inbox, so the mail, instead of bouncing out and back to sender, instead looped back to the purchasing department mail server. There would be so much mail, that the server would crash. Or something like that. I’m no expert.
Very good – the force is strong with this one! Yep, classic denial of service attack. In most corporate environments where I see this type of failure, it’s usually caused by people firing off with the “Reply All” button, but it’s the same idea. Penny likes the more direct approach. 🙂
I may need this one explained to me.
I believe it is a type of DNS attack. I think what she did, was set up a program to send a massive email request attack against the purchasing server. The return address for the emails pointed back to the purchasing server inbox, so the mail, instead of bouncing out and back to sender, instead looped back to the purchasing department mail server. There would be so much mail, that the server would crash. Or something like that. I’m no expert.
Very good – the force is strong with this one! Yep, classic denial of service attack. In most corporate environments where I see this type of failure, it’s usually caused by people firing off with the “Reply All” button, but it’s the same idea. Penny likes the more direct approach. 🙂