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A Year Ago: Denial Of Service Round-up
News Deconstructing Denial of Service attacks An in-depth assessment of what effect these attacks may have on the technology industry in the long term. ZDNet looks into these Denial of Service attacks in detail, examining how they were carried out, what...
[February 9, 2001, 6:06]
Denial Of Service Attacks Loom In GM Food Protest
News British cyber-activists, angry at the advent of GM foods, have pledged to launch Denial of Service attacks on several multinational organisations involved with the controversial foodstuffs. The Electrohippies promise "an email and client-side...
[March 16, 2000, 16:27]
Cisco Security Advisory: Denial Of Service Vulnerability In Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Software
White Papers The Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) software contains a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability that may cause some devices that run WAAS software (WAE appliance and NM-WAE 502 module) to stop processing all types of traffic, including...
[April 3, 2008, 0:00]
Denial Of Service Attacks: Linux To The Rescue?
News For example, TripWire tripped up distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) Trojan infections by finding the obnoxious programs hidden deep in the operating system. According to Ransom Love, president and CEO of Caldera Systems, secure business Linux "is...
[March 1, 2000, 9:07]
A Year Ago: Denial Of Service Attacks Loom In GM Food Protest
News Denial of Service strikes will coincide with GM protest week British cyber-activists, angry at the advent of GM foods, have pledged to launch Denial of Service attacks on several multinational organisations involved with the controversial foodstuffs.
[March 16, 2001, 6:03]
Special: Denial Of Service Round-up
News ZDNet looks into these Denial of Service attacks in detail, examining how they were carried out, what the ongoing risks will be, and assessing the possible reverberations in the world of Internet technology and e-commerce.
[February 9, 2000, 14:45]
Denial Of Service Attacks Outlawed
News A UK law has been passed that makes it an offence to launch denial of service attacks, which experts had previously called "a legal grey area. In a denial of service attack, a person attempts to make a computer system unavailable to users by...
[November 10, 2006, 16:30]
Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Papers This white paper is written to help those concerned about denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, such those recently experienced by e-Bay, Yahoo, Amazon.com and other well-known online companies. The purpose of the paper is to provide executives with an...
[March 22, 2004, 23:00]
Denial Of Service Attacks Are Legal 'grey Area'
News A prosecution witness in the trial of a teenager accused of launching an email bomb attack admitted that the legality of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks caused by a flood of email is a legal grey area that IT professionals want clarified.
[November 2, 2005, 11:20]
Denial-of-Service: How Big Is This Threat?
News The attacks included theft of proprietary information, financial fraud, system penetration by outsiders and denial-of-service attacks. The distributed Denial-of-Service attacks have really done a lot to get people to focus on a lot of things that...
[April 5, 2000, 13:20]
Denial Of Service Hobbles DoubleClick
News Digital marketing and advertising company DoubleClick is staying tight-lipped about the denial-of-service (DoS) attack that hobbled its online ad-serving operation for four hours. Jon Moffat, director of DoubleClick's Asia Pacific customer support...
[July 28, 2004, 12:10]
Hackers Question Denial Of Service As Political Protest
News A row has broken out between UK Internet activists, the Electrohippies, and US ethical hacking group, Cult of the Dead Cow, over whether Denial of Service attacks are a legitimate form of Internet activism.
[March 13, 2000, 11:30]
Cisco Distributed Denial Of Service Protection Solution: Leading DDoS Protection For Service Providers And Their Customers
White Papers Today, service providers and their customers are exposed to a growing number of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which can damage revenues and reputations. Therefore, service providers' offerings must include advanced security solutions.
[November 2, 2005, 23:00]
Chinese Site Struck By Denial Of Service Attack
News One of China's largest Internet commerce sites has become the latest victim of a Denial of Service attack, according to reports in China's press. IT163.com, which sells goods from China's top 50 retailers, was rendered inoperative by a distributed...
[March 13, 2000, 13:16]
Electrohippy Promises WTO Denial Of Service
News UK Internet activist and self-confessed "electrohippy" Paul Mobbs is confident that his Web site will co-ordinate a successful denial of service attack against the Web servers of the World Trade Organisation Today.
[November 30, 1999, 10:44]
Detecting Distributed Denial Of Service Attacks Using Source IP Address Monitoring
White Papers This paper proposes a simple but robust scheme to detect denial of service attacks (including distributed denial of service attacks) by monitoring the increase of new IP addresses. Unlike previous proposals for bandwidth attack detection schemes...
[December 6, 2007, 23:00]
Security And Denial Of Service Threats In GSM Networks
White Papers With respect to security, the emerging risks of denial of service (DoS) attacks will evolve into critical danger as the availability of mobile networks becomes more and more important for the modern information society.
[July 29, 2007, 0:00]
A Taxonomy For Denial-of-Service Attacks In Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers One such attack is that of Denial-Of-Service (DOS), which is believed will only become more prevalent as sensor networks become more pervasive and accessible. With the inherent resource limitations of WSN devices, they are particularly susceptible...
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
Microsoft Discloses Denial Of Service Bugs
News The worst you could do is a denial of service attack. Denial of service (DOS) attacks, which involve bombarding a target, are a relatively simple method of causing disruption to an enemy. Although Windows 2000 is designed to restart itself whenever...
[March 6, 2001, 14:44]
A Year Ago: Hackers Question Denial Of Service As Political Protest
News A row has broken out between UK Internet activists, the Electrohippies, and US ethical hacking group, Cult of the Dead Cow, over whether Denial of Service attacks are a legitimate form of Internet activism.
[March 13, 2001, 6:03]
