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Insertion, Evasion, And Denial Of Service: Eluding Network Intrusion Detection
White Papers Intrusion detection is a security technology that attempts to identify and isolate 'intrusions' against computer systems. Different ID systems have differing classifications of 'intrusion'; a system attempting to detect attacks against web servers...
[October 8, 2003, 6:44]
Denial-of-Service Attacks: Understanding Network Vulnerabilities
White Papers Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, in which legitimate users are denied access to Web servers and target systems, can pose especially serious problems for services companies. Today's complex network environments and Web hosting systems, vulnerable to...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
New Denial Of Service Menace Uncovered
News A new distributed denial of service threat, with the potential to disable large Web sites, has been uncovered by US computer security firm Network Security Technologies, the company said Friday. Thousands of Trojan horse programs, which allow a...
[June 9, 2000, 11:58]
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]
Securing The VoIP Experience - Technical Level 1
White Papers End-users and network operators are now sensitized to Internet-related security issues ranging from viruses, worms, and spam to hackers, network intrusions, and denial-of-service attacks. The webcast analyzes available technologies for securing...
[May 19, 2006, 0:00]
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]
Cisco Releases Patches For Router Vulnerabilities
News The security flaws could allow attackers to send a few small packets through the routers to shut down the network in a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer for the Sans Institute, which issued a security...
[May 25, 2007, 9:43]
Author Of Web Attack Tool Speaks
News While chatting online with ZDNet about last week's spate of Web attacks, "Mixter" -- a self-proclaimed "white-hat hacker" who created the Tribal Flood Network denial-of-service tool some believe is responsible for several of those attacks -- was...
[February 15, 2000, 9:08]
Net Attack Flops, But Threat Persists
News Had the attack prevented access to the servers for eight to 10 hours, the average computer user may have noticed slower response times, said Craig Labovitz, director of network architecture for denial-of-service prevention firm Arbor Networks.
[October 24, 2002, 9:42]
Feds Warn Of New Worm Threat
News A government Internet watchdog warned companies this past weekend of a new malicious program that spreads to previously compromised PCs and seemingly prepares the infected machines to launch a denial-of-service attack, sources said Monday.
[June 26, 2001, 7:16]
Web Attacks? The ISPs Strike Back!
News Eight Internet service providers (ISPs) have teamed up with Internet security firm ICSA.net to prevent more Denial of Service attacks like the ones that downed several major Web sites earlier this month.
[February 24, 2000, 9:03]
OpenSSL Shuts Attack Holes
News Such a denial-of-service attack could stop users from logging in to a server and prevent administrators from managing network devices. The group behind OpenSSL, a widely used open-source Web security program, released two patches for security flaws...
[March 18, 2004, 7:30]
Experts Warn Of New-style Cyber Attack
News A garden-variety denial-of-service attack uses a single server to attempt to tie up a network's connection, denying its users access to or from the Internet. Known as "distributed co-ordinated attacks," this new style is particularly good at...
[October 20, 1999, 10:45]
Experts: Web Attacks Not Over Yet
News eBay.com, Buy.com, The Microsoft Network, CNN and Amazon.com in the dubious ranks of victims of what is known as a "distributed Denial of Service" attack. In fact, security experts are concerned that Denial of Service techniques are evolving to the...
[February 10, 2000, 8:45]
Linux Worm Creating P2P Attack Network
News Slapper) also includes a number of peer-to-peer capabilities, which allow it to communicate with other clients, and participate in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) network," stated the advisory.
[September 16, 2002, 8:09]
Web Attacks: Are ISPs Doing Enough?
News In the wake of the recent Denial of Service attacks against eight major Web sites, including ZDNet, personal security has become less of an add-on and more of a must-have feature for Internet surfers.
[February 22, 2000, 9:13]
Windows XP Slammed As Gift To 'zombie' Hackers
News A row has broken out between a top security expert and Microsoft over whether Windows XP contains a feature that threatens the security of the Internet by making denial of service attacks easier Gibson believes this implementation will make it much...
[June 7, 2001, 10:58]
Game Server Flaw Poses Attack Threat
News In an advisory posted to the company's Web site, security consultancy PivX Solutions stated that popular multiplayer games that have servers supporting the GameSpy network -- such as "Quake 3: Arena," "Unreal Tournament 2003" and "Battlefield 1942...
[January 20, 2003, 7:23]
Security A Low Priority In Y2K
News The distributed denial-of-service attacks that slowed traffic to several high-profile sites in February amounted to a momentary stall in the fast ascent of e-commerce. major Internet sites found their servers choked by massive streams of data from...
[December 27, 2000, 12:15]
Computer Prank Slips Past Security Experts
News Internet vandals use the tactic, called a denial-of-service attack, to drown a company's network in a flood of data. The original exploit code had been submitted to SecurityFocus anonymously, but Network Associates is attempting to trace the denial...
[February 2, 2001, 8:55]
