Re: Interesting infographic on the history of firewalls

On 07/24/2014 10:37 PM, Dotzero wrote:
> http://www.net-security.org/images/articles/infographic-history-firewall-general.jpg
> 
> Accurate? Inaccurate? Thoughts.


At least the reference to DoS in year 2000 is wrong. DoS were known at
the system level (e.g. excessive memory consumption by local processes)
long before 2000. Mitnick used the SYN flood at least in 1994. Even
Smurf, which is usually classified as a DDoS, was known long before 2000.

IDS are not firewalls :)

The fist firewall evasion techniques I'm aware of are:
- SYN packet fragmentation in order to fool packet filtering
routers/firewalls
- setting the TTL in legitimate packets in order to map the network
behind a firewall.
Both were known long before 2006

Regards,

- Claudio

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