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Researchers' protocol denies DoS attacks
News Methods exist for configuring a network to filter out known denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack software, and for recognising some of the traffic patterns associated with a mounting DoS attack.
[October 1, 2009, 9:48]
"Mafiaboy" arrested in Canada for DoS attacks
News A Canadian teenager was arrested Tuesday in connection with distributed denial of service (DoS) attacks on major Web site in February, according to reports. The DoS attacks demonstrated how easily some of the world's largest Web sites could be...
[April 19, 2000, 11:15]
Irate football fans launched DoS attacks
News Legal firm Allen & Overy fought off a number of DoS attacks earlier this year when it was negotiating Malcolm Glazer's takeover bid of Manchester United, a company representative has revealed. The current Computer Misuse Act (1990) does not...
[September 21, 2005, 16:50]
Spammers 'hit schools with DoS attacks'
News According to Email Systems, some spammers are launching DoS attacks on schools by singling out individual domain addresses and bombarding them with spam and virus-ridden email at up to 100 times the usual rate.
[January 10, 2005, 14:15]
Caldera posts free DOS on Web
News DOS is free and on the Internet after Caldera today posted its OpenDOS operating system on its Web site. The OS is based on Novell's DOS 7.0 which Caldera bought last year. That code was, in turn, a development of Digital Research's DR-DOS.
[February 3, 1997, 11:31]
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 DoS threats, according to VeriSign's security chief. The new DoS attacks first emerged in late December and kicked...
[March 17, 2006, 9:05]
Students propose defence for DoS attack
News In two papers presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy on Monday, graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University suggested simple modifications to network software that could defeat denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
[May 13, 2003, 13:30]
Exception Triggered DoS Attacks on Wireless Networks
White Papers This paper identified a practical way to launch DoS attacks on security protocols by triggering exceptions. DoS attacks on PEAP, one popular TLS-based EAP protocol were performed and tested on a major university's wireless network, and the attacks...
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
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. Although a DoS attack can be successful with only a moderate rate of packet flow, it requires specially...
[May 27, 2003, 13:55]
Apple DOS File System
Downloads Mount ProDOS, DOS 3.3, Pascal, CP/M for drag and drop exchange with the Finder Mount non-standard disks eg: Hybrid and 400K DOS Allow Drag & Drop of files/folders between images or to/from Finder. Support any disk image file format: Raw, NIB...
[September 3, 2004, 8:00]
myTo-Dos With Email Support
Downloads Never again forget your to-dos for the day, whether they be be personal or work-related. The perfect tool for today's busy information worker. Enter as many items as you like with date and time range -- even things you want to remember weeks...
[August 4, 2008, 8:00]
Microsoft probes Windows DoS flaw
News However, that has not been proven, so the issue is so far deemed to be a denial of service, or DoS, problem only, Secunia said. Microsoft is looking into a report of a Windows flaw that could cause certain applications to crash, the software maker...
[June 2, 2006, 9:50]
Former YouSendIt chief accused of DoS attack
News Shaikh, who left the firm in November 2006, is accused of launching four denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against YouSendIt's San Jose-based web servers. Each DoS attack temporarily rendered the servers incapable of handling legitimate network...
[November 2, 2009, 14:20]
HP LaserJet 4Si/4SiMX Driver for DOS Applications
Downloads Download and install the 4Si/4SiMX driver for DOS applications. This driver supports Harvard Graphics 3.0, Lotus 1-2-3 releases 2.3 and 2.4, WordPerfect 5.1, and Novell 286 and 386.
[February 28, 1997, 0:57]
DoS flaw extends across Windows range
News Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are vulnerable to a DoS attack that exploits a problem in the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Microsoft said in an advisory on Saturday. A security flaw that could let an attacker remotely crash...
[July 19, 2005, 9:25]
Exclusive: Big Brother was hit by DoS attack
News Hackers hit Channel 4's Big Brother Web site last Tuesday with what has been described as a "massive denial of access (DoS) attack". Short now admits the DoS attack happened "when the first show went live", but is satisfied there have been no...
[July 25, 2000, 16:43]
Blogger targeted in Twitter, Facebook DoS
News Cyxymu's LiveJournal page was not accessible, but a cached version showed it was updated on Thursday with a message about the DoS attacks on his accounts on the US-based sites. It is unclear whether or how the spam attack is related to the DoS...
[August 7, 2009, 10:18]
CA flaws opens users up to DoS attacks
News The flaw enables a writer of malicious code to disable CA's eTrust Intrusion Detection System 3.0, which in turn weakens a company's defence against a DoS attack, said Michael Sutton, director of iDefense Labs.
[April 7, 2005, 9:40]
XP flaw allows for DoS attacks
News It does not look like it is more than a DoS," said Michael Sutton, a lab director at iDefense. A newly discovered and as-of-yet unpatched security vulnerability in Windows XP could let an attacker remotely crash computers.
[July 18, 2005, 9:15]
Law may be updated to cover DoS attacks
News The government is considering amending the Computer Misuse Act (CMA), amid concern within the Internet industry that denial of service (DoS) attacks may not be covered by the law. But the Home Office has admitted that there is significant concern...
[December 11, 2002, 16:52]
