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As hardware PABX systems are replaced with computers and network hardware running common operating systems, networks will become increasingly vulnerable to common threats such as viruses and denial of service (DoS) attacks.
This expansion provides redundancy and reliability, and specifically deals with the increasing attacks we have out there," he said. There are 13 official root servers, which are currently run on about 80 different physical servers, Balogh said.
The Australian researchers said in their report that the use of frequency hopping would not stop DoS attacks, as the tags themselves could not hop frequencies. Researchers say they have proven that effective attacks can be launched against RFID tags.