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Police force hit with iPod DoS attack
News Malicious spammers have hit Cambridgeshire police with a denial of service attack by threatening recipients of emails to charge their credit cards unless they call a 'customer service' number that is actually the main switchboard number for the...
[December 5, 2003, 14:45]
DNS recursion leads to nastier DoS attacks
News A new kind of denial-of-service (DoS) attack has emerged that delivers a heftier blow to organisations' systems than previously seen Under a more common distributed DoS (DDos) attack, a botnet — a network of compromised PCs being remotely...
[March 17, 2006, 9:05]
DoS attacks becoming commonplace
News As if to underscore the point, one of the most prominent security sites in the US, the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre at Carnegie Mellon University, was brought down by a denial-of-service attack last week.
[May 29, 2001, 13:42]
Microsoft server bugs open the door to hackers
News The Telnet hole could allow hackers to launch a denial-of-service attack or execute code on the target system. The information in the registry could also help hackers launch an attack on the Exchange server.
[February 11, 2002, 13:48]
Lycos anti-spam campaign bites the dust
News After a week of heavy criticism of the company's plan to launch denial-of-service-like attacks on spammers, Lycos has thrown in the towel, lashing out at the media and Internet monitoring company NetCraft.
[December 6, 2004, 16:05]
Research aims to stop battery attackers
News A team of computer scientists is working to prevent new types of denial-of-service attacks aimed at battery-powered mobile devices. One method is a service request attack, in which a hacker could send repeated requests for services over a network.
[November 22, 2002, 16:12]
Hybrid DDoS worm strikes Microsoft SQL Server
News A known vulnerability in Microsoft SQL server systems is being targeted by a hybrid worm that combines a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) with the automated propagation techniques used by worms such as Code Red.
[November 23, 2001, 13:38]
Learning how to hack the enemy
News If you are doing a denial-of-service attack, this is a perfect way to find out how high up in the hierarchy you need to hit to take out their entire service," said William Chan, one of the instructors.
[July 12, 2000, 9:33]
Dangerous new Internet worms on the prowl
News Although their initial payloads are relatively harmless, potential upgrades may include more destructive payloads or tools that target specific IP addresses to allow a malicious user to enlist the infected machines in a distributed denial of...
[December 15, 2000, 14:59]
Cisco releases IOS update bundle
News One of the advisories relates to multiple features of IOS being vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack, as an attacker sending a sequence of crafted TCP packets can cause Cisco devices to reload. The bundle of security advisories, released on...
[March 26, 2009, 12:36]
Microsoft warns of Slammer morphs
News It was just a denial-of-service attack. He also warned that Slammer variants could attack in future. In a conference call with users later on Friday, Microsoft will explain the lessons it has learnt from the attack, and what it -- and users...
[January 31, 2003, 14:18]
IBM denies Domino flaw
News The denial-of-service (DoS) flaw appears in versions 6.5.1 and 6.0.3 of the email and calendar server software, security company iDefense said in an advisory released on Wednesday. The vulnerability allows people to launch a remote attack by...
[April 8, 2005, 9:20]
Cisco warns of network flaw
News Through internal testing, Cisco has discovered that devices running Cisco IOS software may be susceptible to a denial-of-service attack," said Jim Brady, a company spokesman. To address this, Cisco has created an IOS software fix and workaround to...
[July 17, 2003, 10:31]
Cisco flaw exploit posted online
News The worry is that someone automates this (attack) and uses it for mass denial of service against people who haven't upgraded their routers," said Al Huger, senior director of engineering for Symantec's security response team.
[July 21, 2003, 8:03]
Microsoft zombie hacker denial condemned
News Microsoft's assurances that Windows XP will not make it easier for hackers to launch damaging Denial of Service (DoS) attacks across the Internet have been dismissed by the security expert who first alerted the company to the issue.
[June 11, 2001, 16:17]
Novell issues critical SuSE patches
News In the case of SuSE, the software seller issued updates to resolve a vulnerability that could allow malicious code to create a local denial-of-service attack using a specially created Acrobat document.
[February 8, 2005, 15:00]
Linux kernel flaw could trigger DoS incidents
News Weimer's posting includes a suggested rough-and-ready emergency patch for those under a hash collision DoS (denial of service) attack. Weimer recommends a Rice University white paper, Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity Attacks which...
[May 27, 2003, 13:55]
'Electronic jihad' played down
News There has been a lot of occasions of people saying, 'hey, let's have a party and deface a lot of Web sites,' and not much has come from it," said Jose Nazario, worm and denial-of-service attack researcher for security company Arbor Networks.
[August 26, 2004, 8:10]
Phone phishing attack hits US
News Once machines have been compromised, they become part of a bot network, which can then be used to launch distributed denial of service attacks, install keylogging software and store account information.
[June 23, 2006, 17:05]
FAQ: The Code Red threat
News Starting on 13 July it may have infected more than 350,000 servers worldwide, launching a massive denial-of-service (DoS) attack against the White House's official Web site. While the worm does not reactivate itself automatically, anyone sending a...
[August 1, 2001, 9:08]
