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Wind up the Internet Watch Foundation
Leader It was a direct denial-of-service attack on a third-party web service, sponsored by the state. It is therefore demonstrably vulnerable to such state-sponsored denial-of-service attacks, as is any other cloud provider.
[December 8, 2008, 15:42]
Microsoft shuts down Update address
News Even as Microsoft battles the MSBlast worm, the company was hit late Thursday with a separate denial-of-service attack on its main Microsoft.com site. The company does not know the origin of the outage but said it stemmed from a denial-of-service...
[August 18, 2003, 8:50]
Attack downs Yahoo, Google and Microsoft
News Keynote earlier Tuesday reported the Akamai DNS system outage and speculated that Akamai was the target of a denial-of-service attack, which then caused the Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Apple sites to fail.
[June 16, 2004, 8:35]
Cisco menaced by Italian 'BlackAngels'
News Most of the vulnerabilities make Cisco routers and switches more susceptible to distributed denial-of-service attacks. This past summer, it announced it had discovered a bug in IOS running on its carrier class routers that exposed them to denial-of...
[March 30, 2004, 8:45]
Elcomsoft bypasses Adobe with bug report
News The latest flaw discovered in Adobe software by Elcomsoft allows a visitor to implement something similar to a denial of service attack against a Web site set up by Adobe to demonstrate the new library features of Adobe Content Server 3.0.
[July 22, 2002, 15:22]
Get more secure - or else!
News In a separate presentation, Michael Vatis, director of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, pleaded with companies to take responsibility for the security of their networks, especially in the wake of the recent Denial of Service...
[March 15, 2000, 9:58]
Terrorist Act will not deter hackers
News According to one source, UK-based cosmetics companies have in the past been threatened with denial of service (DoS) attacks -- where a computer network is forcibly disabled with a tidal wave of fake traffic.
[February 23, 2001, 9:00]
Estonia's CTO speaks out on cyberattacks
News The initial attack phase saw denial-of-service attacks against government sites by individuals and defacement attacks. The main attack phase saw distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the two main banks in Estonia, Hansabank and SEB...
[October 24, 2007, 11:47]
Computer prank slips past security experts
News Internet vandals use the tactic, called a denial-of-service attack, to drown a company's network in a flood of data. The original exploit code had been submitted to SecurityFocus anonymously, but Network Associates is attempting to trace the denial...
[February 2, 2001, 8:55]
FBI leads cyber-vandal hunt
News It appears the sites were all targeted by coordinated, distributed Denial of Service attacks -- a technique in which attackers use a great number of compromised servers to flood a target with data. PST Tuesday by Denial of Service attacks that...
[February 10, 2000, 8:57]
Patch now or be sorry later
News This attack mode, for what scant comfort it brings, is purely a Denial of Service (DoS) assault, and not a cracker tool. See also the Denial of Service roundup. Another day, another security hole. But for once, Microsoft blocked this Microsoft NT...
[March 24, 2000, 11:09]
Hack attack on capitalism... not likely
News But predictions of low tech attacks were challenged by a spokesman from underground activist publication, Schnews, who is confident Tuesday's street demos will be supported by computer activism designed to slow things down: "You can expect denial...
[November 29, 1999, 16:25]
Another day, another virus
News Instead it makes denial of service attacks on your network and Internet sites by constantly generating ping requests to four different net sites. Papa B, combines a similar denial of service attack with the getting to be all too familiar Melissa...
[April 8, 1999, 16:48]
Apple patches Mac OS X hole
News Apple's security update also fixes a buffer overflow vulnerability in a file system, plugs another vulnerability in Panther that could cause denial-of-service requests, and in general improves the security features of the affected OSes.
[December 23, 2003, 7:45]
UK launches dedicated cybersecurity agency
News The government will develop information systems to allow it to launch denial-of-service attacks and to spy on chosen targets, said the official. We will have a whole range of offensive capabilities, including distributed denial-of-service," said...
[June 25, 2009, 10:00]
Cracking for dummies: Emails that kill
News These are legitimate problems," said Dan Schrader, vice president of new technology for anti-virus software maker Trend-Micro "They are potential denial of service attacks. This problem is going to go away (when we complete the fixes)," he said...
[August 17, 1999, 8:38]
Secure64 locks down network servers
News DNS is one of many essential internet services, but servers that handle the translation can be degraded if bombarded with heavy traffic known as a denial-of-service attack. Using the company's modified version of the open source NSD software...
[March 20, 2007, 8:33]
Microsoft Windows Security Bulletin Summary for July
Downloads Executive Summary: A denial of service vulnerability exists that could allow an attacker to send a specially crafted e-mail message causing Outlook Express to fail. Impact of Vulnerability: Denial of Service
[August 2, 2004, 8:00]
Worm exploits major Windows flaw
News The denial-of-service attack could slow down, and even halt access to, the primary way Microsoft customers receive updates for their computers. Microsoft may find a way to deflect the attack, as did the White House's technical staff when the Code...
[August 12, 2003, 8:55]
Is Sony BMG spreading malware?
News FrSIRT has reported a critical vulnerability in the Cisco IOS that can allow either a remote or local attacker to compromise the system by executing arbitrary code or — at the minimum — trigger a denial of service event.
[November 9, 2005, 13:55]
