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Cisco - Strategies to Protect Against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
White Papers This white paper contains information to help the reader understand how DDoS attacks are orchestrated, recognize programs used to facilitate DDoS attacks, apply measures to prevent the attacks, gather forensic information if a person suspects an...
[November 1, 2006, 0:00]
A Preliminary Classification Scheme for Information System Threats, Attacks, and Defenses; A Cause and Effect Model
White Papers This paper describes 37 different factors that may cause Information System Failure (Threats), 94 different mechanisms by which Information Systems fails (Attacks) and 140 different mechanisms which may prevent,limit, reduce, or mitigate harm...
[August 23, 2003, 9:46]
Strategies to Protect Against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
White Papers This white paper contains information to help you understand how DDoS attacks are orchestrated, recognize programs used to facilitate DDoS attacks apply measures to prevent the attacks gather forensic information if you suspect an attack and learn...
[December 4, 2003, 5:04]
Detection and Prevention of Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Using Reputation-Based Incentive Scheme
White Papers There is a need to provide an incentive mechanism that can provide cooperation among nodes in the network and improve overall network performance by reducing DoS attacks. This paper proposes a reputation-based incentive mechanism for detecting and...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
IP Traceback of Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks Using Mobile Agents
White Papers A current important network threat is the launch of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. The main problem behind such attacks is the ability of an attacker to spoof his IP address. Accordingly, tracing back an attacker to actual source became a very...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Attacks puzzle open-source community
News A recent spate of attacks on Macromedia Flash developer community Web sites has exposed a potential security threat in a common open-source mailing list application. It took two separate attacks on the site to spot the security vulnerability...
[February 13, 2004, 9:50]
A Queueing Analysis for the Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks in Computer Networks
White Papers In most network security analysis, researchers mainly focus on qualitative studies on security schemes and possible attacks, and there are few papers on quantitative analysis in the current literature.
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
'Attacks threaten innovation' - Ballmer
Talkback One would also consider the fact that, with enforced audits, such attacks also do a lot to encourage the stability of Microsoft releases. Innovation is nothing without control.
[September 16, 2003, 10:47]
Attacks silence privacy concerns
News Last week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon marked a significant turning point in the debate over computer and Internet privacy, giving new weight to calls for broader government surveillance powers.
[September 18, 2001, 9:16]
Attacks on Virtual Machine Emulators
White Papers This paper describes known attacks against the most widely used virtual machine emulators (VMware and VirtualPC). This paper also demonstrates newly discovered attacks on other virtual machine emulators (Bochs, Hydra, QEMU, and Xen), and describes...
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
Attacks and Countermeasures: A Study of Network Attack Classes and Security Components to Protect Against Them
White Papers There are many types of network attacks, and security solutions to address almost all of them. Most attack types fall into three major categories: attacks on integrity, attacks on confidentiality or attacks on availability.
[September 2, 2008, 7:35]
TCP flaws may lead to DoS attacks, say researchers
News Two researchers in Sweden have found multiple flaws in the TCP stack that could lead to massive denial-of-service attacks if exploited. The Sockstress program was very effective in producing DoS attacks.
[October 3, 2008, 8:55]
Free tool automates attacks on Gmail, Facebook
News A security researcher will on Tuesday demonstrate a free, open-source tool designed to carry out automated man-in-the-middle attacks on users accessing popular sites such as Gmail, Facebook, LiveJournal and LinkedIn.
[October 7, 2008, 14:42]
Denial of Service Attacks and Challenges in Broadband Wireless Networks
White Papers Security attacks and vulnerabilities vary amongst these broadband wireless networks because of differences in topologies, network operations and physical setups. Broadband wireless networks are providing internet and related services to end users.
[April 15, 2009, 1:22]
Microsoft blames adminstrators for hacking attacks
News Microsoft blames network adminstrators for last week's attacks on government Web sites Monday. Sandra Baccari Edler, research analyst with IDC, agrees that more attention must be paid to online security, but believes that such attacks help to alert...
[August 21, 2000, 16:38]
Malicious Code Protector: A New Approach for Detecting and Blocking Buffer Over?ow Attacks
White Papers While attack countermeasures have been developed to identify a buffer overflow attack after it has emerged, current solutions are unable to identify new attacks or variations on the attack. This is a critical problem given the spread at which these...
[March 2, 2005, 2:00]
Types of Attacks That Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Can Launch and What They Are
White Papers Various high profile site attacks have amply shown that it is futile having your firewall perfectly configured and your OS and key applications at the latest patch level, if your web application can be compromised in a matter of minutes, granting...
[June 24, 2009, 10:40]
On the Impact of GSM Encryption and Man-in-the-Middle Attacks on the Security of Interoperating GSM/UMTS Networks
White Papers This paper discusses the impact of GSM encryption attacks, that recover the encryption key, and the man-in-the-middle attack on the security of networks, which employ UMTS and GSM base stations simultaneously.
[November 15, 2005, 23:00]
RFID Attacks: Securing Communications Using RFID Middleware
White Papers The paper also looks at the middleware implementation provided in Commerce Events' AdaptLink, which provides a scalable security infrastructure to thwart RFID attacks. A key challenge to changing to a standards-based infrastructure is that tag data...
[April 1, 2009, 5:01]
MessageLabs warns of customised email attacks
News Two highly targeted email attacks on individuals at corporations cropped up on Monday. MessageLabs security analyst Paul Wood said it is likely the two attacks are related, but their attachments and delivery mechanisms varied somewhat.
[November 21, 2007, 12:31]
