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News Roundup: Attack On America
News Thursday 13th September Several Web sites are helping people donate money to the victims of Tuesday's attack, boosting online donations to their highest ever level Online businesses feel impact of attack
[September 12, 2001, 13:10]
Attack Surface: Mitigate Security Risks By Minimizing The Code You Expose To Untrusted Users
White Papers The core tenet of the attack surface reduction (ASR) philosophy is that all code has a nonzero likelihood of containing one or more vulnerabilities. Code quality and attack surface reduction combined can help produce more secure software.
[December 24, 2004, 23:00]
Attack Knocks Tiscali Customers Offline
News Tiscali UK suffered an attack on its network on Tuesday, resulting in a loss of service for some users. The precise nature of the attack is as yet unknown. The company said in a statement: "Tiscali has been subject to an external attack on our...
[March 19, 2003, 8:32]
Attack Targets .info Domain System
News An Internet attack flooded domain name manager UltraDNS with a deluge of data late last week, causing administrators to scramble to keep up and running the servers that host .info and other domains. This is the largest attack that we've seen...
[November 26, 2002, 8:54]
Attack On Domain Name Servers Fails
News The so-called distributed denial-of-service attack leveled a barrage of data at the 13 domain-name service root servers beginning around 1 pm PDT on Monday and apparently is ongoing, according to Internet performance measurement company Matrix...
[October 23, 2002, 7:46]
Check Point Multi-Layer Security: Attack Prevention Safeguards And Attacks Blocked
White Papers Check Point gateways, including VPN-1, FireWall-1, InterSpect, and Connectra, with SmartDefense, Application Intelligence and Web Intelligence protection enabled block many attacks and provide numerous attack prevention safeguards.
[August 4, 2005, 0:00]
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]
Ukrainian Presidential Website Under Attack
Blog The website of the Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has been suffering a prolonged distributed denial of service attack, according to a post on antivirus vendor F-Secure's blog. According to F-Secure, Russian groups are being blamed for the...
[October 31, 2007, 13:28]
Windows Attack Code Made Public
News The attack code exploits a flaw in the way Windows handles Vector Markup Language, or VML, documents, which are used for a type of high-quality graphic on the web. However, attack code hadn't been available publicly.
[January 17, 2007, 7:48]
New Nachi Hides Political Attack
News The worm, which seeks an Internet connection via the Google, Intel and Microsoft sites, is expected to try to exploit four Microsoft vulnerabilities, two of which attack Microsoft's WebDav and Workstation service.
[February 13, 2004, 7:40]
RIAA Scales Up Legal Attack
News The Recording Industry Association of America picked up the pace of its legal attack on Net music swappers on Tuesday, filing copyright infringement suits against another 531 individuals. As with the last round of suits, filed in early January, the...
[February 18, 2004, 9:35]
Hack Attack On Capitalism... Not Likely
News Sometimes the most primitive methods of attack such as filling someone's voice mail quota or sending a 40,000 document to a fax-machine have the most damaging potential. Threats of computer attacks on British financial institutions to coincide with...
[November 29, 1999, 16:25]
Organised Crime 'will Attack ID Cards Database'
Talkback No datbase on a system with out/in going connections can be made completely proofed agaist attack. Who are they trting to hoodwink? If the stake are high enough the criminal fraternity will find the way in, and the data will pour out.
[May 18, 2006, 14:47]
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]
Juniper Routers Exposed To Attack
News Such an attack could allow a hacker to gain access to the router and crucial areas of the network. Networking company Juniper is encouraging customers to upgrade their routers to fix a serious vulnerability in its operating system.
[January 31, 2005, 12:40]
Next Virus Attack To Cost SMEs Billions
News The next big computer virus attack could cost the UK's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) £2.1bn, according to research carried out by McAfee Security. These threats are especially hazardous for high speed Internet users who are always...
[November 22, 2002, 15:41]
Experts Warn Of New-style Cyber Attack
News Over the past six weeks, network servers have come under assault by a fundamentally new style of computer attack, said experts at the National Information Systems Security Conference in the US. It's possible to detect the attack, but it is very...
[October 20, 1999, 10:45]
SunGrid Comes Under Attack
News Sun's Grid, a publicly available computing service, was hit by a denial-of-service network attack on its inaugural day, the company said on Wednesday. It became the focus of a denial-of-service attack," Aisling MacRunnels, Sun's senior director of...
[March 23, 2006, 8:10]
Lineo Responds To Microsoft Attack
News The following is a point-by-point response to Microsoft's attack from Lineo, one of the companies of which Microsoft is most critical. At the end of November Microsoft posted a document on its Web site comparing the Windows XP Embedded and embedded...
[December 17, 2001, 14:53]
Lycos Denies Attack On Zombie Army
News On our servers we don’t have any logs of an attack. I have to be very clear that it's not a denial-of-service attack," said Pollmann. Internet portal Lycos has denied its 'make love not spam' Web site was hacked into and defaced last night.
[December 1, 2004, 12:50]
