Securing Linux: process limits
Submitted by jacob on Sun, 03/16/2008 - 2:48pmThis tip was found at http://aymanh.com/tips-to-secure-linux-workstation.
An old school attack on Linux systems is called a fork bomb. There is demonstration code at the fore-mentioned website, but essentially, it is a command that will spawn an unending number of processes, eventually killing the system.