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Originally posted by Mr.Fiction
When we've been DOS'd, the number of processes goes sky high. With other attacks, where they try to overload PERL or PHP scripts or simple stuff like causing a bunch of MySQL queries all at once, the server load and sometimes memory goes high as well. I'm sure there are ways to overload the server without doing that, but every attack that I can remember has been pretty obvious by looking at TOP.
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DoS's sure, agreed. however if he was actually hacked, or god forbid had anon ftp turned on, with writes....trust me, as someone who makes a decent, albeit occasional, amount of cash on inident response: their not always easy to find....t
(for the curious, i usually pull between $600-800 an hour for that kind of work, and I'm cheap)