File-sharing sites being subverted for web attacks
May 30th, 2007 | By CentroN | Category: Online Life, p2pPeer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks, which let users trade movies, music and software online, are increasingly being used to trick PCs into attacking other machines, experts say.
Computer scientists have previously shown how P2P networks could, theoretically, be subverted so that several connected PCs gang up to attack a single machine, flooding it with enough traffic to make it crash. This can work even if the target is not part of the P2P network itself.
NewScientist.com news service
