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Windows security hole and fix explained
News The vulnerability can leave Windows users open to denial of service attacks. Another software patch has been released by the Microsoft camp, this time for a glitch in the TCP/IP stack implementation of Windows 95 and 98.
[September 9, 1999, 17:15]
Detecting DDoS Attacks on ISP Networks
White Papers Most past solutions for detecting denial of service attacks (and identifying the perpetrators) have targeted end-node victims. However, little attention has been given to this problem from an ISP perspective.
[October 24, 2007, 1:00]
Antispam advocate succumbs to spammer
News The surrender comes after the company's Web site, along with those of many of its partners, were hobbled by a denial-of-service attack earlier this month. Instead of capitulating, one spammer launched a denial-of-service attack earlier this month.
[May 18, 2006, 8:35]
Lord battles government over cybercrime laws
News The proposed changes would alter the law regarding launching denial of service attacks, the creation of tools that could be used for hacking, and bot attacks. He is seeking to amend Clause 40 of the Police and Justice Bill so that malicious denial...
[June 20, 2006, 14:50]
F-Secure warns of flaw in its own software
News The vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or to create a denial-of-service condition. F-Secure has issued a 'critical' alert for a vulnerability in its own antivirus software.
[May 31, 2007, 12:30]
Attack downs Yahoo, Google and Microsoft
Talkback I hate these denial of service attacks but at least they won't stop me typing this mes.
[June 16, 2004, 11:18]
Secunia warns of unpatched Symantec flaws
News In an advisory published on Monday, Secunia warned that companies could suffer remote systems access and denial of service due to unpatched parsing vulnerabilities in Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange, caused by third-party file viewers.
[October 30, 2007, 15:03]
DDoS: A Threat You Can't Afford to Ignore
White Papers Distributed denial of service, otherwise known as DDoS, refers to a form of attack whereby a number of source IPs simultaneously send an abnormally large number of packets to a particular destination, thereby overwhelming the bandwidth or the...
[October 6, 2009, 1:22]
Preventing DoS Attacks in Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming Systems
White Papers This paper presents a framework for preventing both selfishness and denial-of-service attacks in peer-to-peer media streaming systems. The framework, called Oversight, achieves prevention of these undesirable activities by running a separate peer...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Hackers attack Japanese government
News In 2004, a Japanese Web site for the controversial Yasukuni shrine was taken offline five times following a string of denial-of-service attacks. The Japanese Government has suffered a spate of cyberattacks on two of its Web sites this week...
[February 24, 2005, 11:50]
Impeding Attrition Attacks in P2P Systems
White Papers These include a spectrum of denial-of-service or attrition attacks from low-level packet flooding to high-level abuse of the peer communication protocol. P2P systems are exposed to an unusually broad range of attacks.
[April 5, 2006, 0:00]
Fur protesters launch Web attacks
News Animal rights protesters launched denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on Monday against seven organisations that work in the fur trade. The group, calling itself "The Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD) against the Fur and the Vivisection Industry", is...
[February 14, 2005, 16:10]
Web vigilantes launch attacks
News The gang is attempting to recruit as many people as possible to launch denial-of-service attacks on spammers' bandwidth and report them to their Web hosts and to legal authorities. He then claimed to know nothing about the organisation, but was...
[February 10, 2005, 12:20]
A Principle of a Data Synthesizer for Performance Test of Anti-DDOS Flood Attacks
White Papers Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDOS) flood attacks remain a big issue in network security. Real events of DDOS flood attacks show that an attacked site (e.g.server) usually may not be overwhelmed immediately at the moment attack packets arrive at...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
The Early Detection of DDoS Based on the Persistent Increment Feature of the Traffic Volume
White Papers One of the major threats to cyber security is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. This paper proposes a new algorithm based on the persistent increment tendency of DDoS traffic. The scheme can detect a DDoS attack in its early stages when...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
DDoS-Resilient Scheduling to Counter Application Layer Attacks Under Imperfect Detection
White Papers Countering Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is becoming ever more challenging with the vast resources and techniques increasingly available to attackers. This paper considers sophisticated attacks that are protocol-compliant, non...
[January 7, 2007, 0:00]
Attrition Defenses for a Peer-to-Peer Digital Preservation System
White Papers In peer-to-peer systems, attrition attacks include both traditional, network-level denial of service attacks as well as application-level attacks in which malign peers conspire to waste loyal peers' resources.
[January 8, 2007, 0:00]
MP to propose tougher cybercrime laws
News APIG wants to see amendments made to the Computer Misuse Act (1990) (CMA) to incorporate the relatively recent phenomenon of denial-of-service attacks. Denial-of-service attacks have become a popular and powerful weapon in the online arsenal of...
[March 14, 2005, 7:40]
Victim-Assisted Mitigation Technique for TCP-Based Reflector DDoS Attacks
White Papers This paper develops the concept of victim-assistance for Denial of Service (DoS) mitigation. The proposed concept is utilized within a simple, yet effective scheme designed for mitigating TCP-based reflector DoS attacks.
[December 20, 2007, 0:01]
Fur trade activists planning DoS attack
News Fur trade protestors are planning to launch a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against the fur industry on Valentine's Day. A group dubbed "Electronic Civil Disobedience" (ECD) has pledged to flood the email systems of unspecified organisations in...
[January 25, 2005, 15:30]
