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Brad Pitt virus targets Microsoft
News Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Britney Spears are subjects of a virus scam that is attempting to recruit computers for a denial-of-service attack on Microsoft. If opened, the worm spreads to the users email contacts, disables security settings on...
[March 31, 2005, 15:10]
Alleged CastleCops attacker charged
News A man has been arrested and charged with launching denial-of-service attacks against two organisations, one of which was voluntary security community CastleCops. He is accused of using a botnet of over 7,000 compromised computers to launch denial...
[October 4, 2007, 17:39]
Networks hit by co-ordinated attack
News Further evidence of a new type denial of service (DoS) attacks with unparalleled potential for causing havoc has been uncovered by Internet Security Systems (ISS). But it is very difficult to be completely sure that it is actually a denial of...
[December 8, 1999, 12:28]
Web bookies demand higher security standards
News Online gambling companies are urging ISPs to do more to prevent hackers disabling computers with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Criminal hackers use distributed denial-of-service attacks to flood their target servers with so much...
[April 5, 2005, 16:55]
TCP flaws may lead to DoS attacks, say researchers
News Two researchers in Sweden have found multiple flaws in the TCP stack that could lead to massive denial-of-service attacks if exploited. One of the behaviours experienced was packet loss, where the packets repeatedly kept trying, creating, more or...
[October 3, 2008, 8:55]
Deep Packets: Application Layer Security Threats
White Papers Attackers have progressed from scanning network ports and creating denial-of-service attacks to targeting software such as Web browsers, Web servers, e-mail programs and even database servers. Traditional firewalls have become victims of their own...
[September 2, 2008, 7:35]
Spam surges hurt SMEs
News This could put small businesses' mail servers at risk of suffering denial-of-service conditions, said messaging security firm MessageLabs. As the mail server still had to deal with both valid and invalid mail, the spam spikes caused denial-of...
[June 4, 2007, 14:43]
Estonia reveals its cybersecurity strategy
News Eighteen months after a denial-of-service attack, the Estonian Ministry of Defense has posted a detailed report on the attacks. In May 2007, the Baltic nation experienced a series of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks as a result of its government's...
[October 3, 2008, 12:08]
WS-SecurityPolicy Decision and Enforcement for Web Service Firewalls
White Papers A known weakness of Web Services is their vulnerability to Denial of Service attacks exploiting XML processing characteristics. For SOAP security is message oriented, the processing of the security content itself is vulnerable to Denial of Service...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Cisco releases patches for router vulnerabilities
News Cisco has released a security patch to fix vulnerabilities in a number of its products that are at risk of a denial-of-service attack. The security flaws could allow attackers to send a few small packets through the routers to shut down the network...
[May 25, 2007, 9:43]
Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks
News Two Europeans, one of whom is English, have been indicted by a US federal grand jury in connection with a 2003 distributed denial-of-service attack that is the focus of a major FBI investigation. The two men, who are not in custody, were indicted...
[October 6, 2008, 13:23]
Hackers shy away from DDoS attacks
News The quantity of distributed denial-of-service attacks launched for the purpose of extortion has fallen, according to security vendor Symantec. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack uses a network of compromised computers, known as a botnet...
[May 3, 2007, 12:52]
A Dynamic Stateful Multicast Firewall
White Papers Enterprises are faced with the challenge of enabling IP multicast applications without exposing their network to multicast denial-of-service attacks. This paper propose and demonstrate a simple yet powerful multicast firewall algorithm that can...
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
FBI investigating new Web attack
News Top-5 Internet service provider AboveNet Communications suffered a Denial-of-Service attack Tuesday morning -- raising the specter of another round of Web attacks. According to Paul Vixie, senior vice president of Internet services for Metromedia...
[April 26, 2000, 8:18]
ALERT: New DDoS attack tool in development
News Unknown programmers posted last week the source code to a new distributed Denial-of-Service tool that is under development, according to an analysis of the tool published Monday by David Dittrich of the University of Washington and three other...
[May 2, 2000, 16:27]
FBI corners hacker 'Coolio'
News The FBI team investigating the recent distributed Denial of Service attacks on major .com sites confiscated the computer of a 17-year-old American youth on Thursday. It's time to take a stand -- Steven Vaughan-Nichols has some tricks of the trade...
[March 3, 2000, 12:15]
Hacker 'Coolio' is released
News FBI agents investigating last month's Denial of Service Web attacks said they don't think a 17-year-old New Hampshire youth, whose name surfaced as a suspect, is responsible for the incidents. For full coverage, see the Denial of Service roundup.
[March 3, 2000, 15:27]
ISPs under strain from barrage of DDoS attacks
News Internet service providers now spend most of their IT security resources detecting and mitigating distributed denial-of-service attacks, according to a report from Arbor Networks. As in the previous three reports, internet service providers (ISPs...
[November 12, 2008, 9:35]
Cisco warns of flaws in wireless LAN controllers
News There are three denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities and one privilege-escalation issue, the networking company said in an advisory on Wednesday. An attacker could exploit the denial-of-service flaws to cause an affected device to hang or reload...
[February 5, 2009, 11:39]
Florida man charged in botnet attack on Akamai
News A Florida man has been charged with launching a distributed denial-of-service attack against servers run by Akamai Technologies. This distributed denial-of-service attack, launched 15 June, 2004, rendered many of Akamai's clients' websites...
[October 25, 2006, 16:40]
