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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks: Evolution, Impact, & Solutions
White Papers Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks have existed since the early days of computing and have evolved into complex and overwhelming security challenges. Organizations have had to worry not just about DoS attacks, but Distributed DoS attacks (DDoS), and...
[October 6, 2009, 0:00]
Using NetFlow Auditor to Assist in Identifying Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks and Other Network Behavior Anomalies
White Papers This Paper covers how Denial of Service Attacks (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDos) can be identified early to mitigate and attack. A game-changing Network Auditing technology called NetFlow Auditor has the potential to enhance...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
'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 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]
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]
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]
Analyzing Interaction Between Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks and Threats
White Papers Denial of Service (DoS) attacks constitutes one of the major threats and among the hardest security problems in today's internet. Of particular concern are Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, whose impact can be proportionally severe.
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
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 target WINS worm hole
Blog The Sans Internet Storm Center is reporting that malicious hackers have kicked off a series of attacks on a flaw in the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), according to Ryan Naraine over at sister site ZDNet.com.
[August 20, 2009, 15:21]
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 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 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 New IP Traceback System Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Papers On most Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, packets with spoofed source addresses are employed in order to disguise the true origin of the attacker. A defense strategy is to trace attack packets back to their actual source in order to make the...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Analyzing Interaction Between Distributed Denial of Service Attacks and Mitigation Technologies
White Papers DDOS-DATA's goal is to analyze Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks and mitigation technologies to develop an understanding of how well mitigation technologies perform and how they can be combined to limit the potential attack space.
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Firefox tool counters man-in-the-middle attacks
News Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have released an extension for Firefox 3 that can protect wireless-network users from so-called 'man-in-the-middle' attacks. Perspectives also protects against attacks that exploit a recently exposed flaw...
[August 27, 2008, 10:57]
TRACK: A Novel Approach for Defending Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Papers This paper presents a novel countermeasure against Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks that they call the rouTer poRt mArking and paCKet filtering (TRACK), which includes the functions of both IP traceback and packet filtering.
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Phishing attacks hook more and more victims
News Phishing attacks have increased in quantity and quality over the past two months, according to research published by the Anti-Phishing Working Group on Monday. The APWG was formed in November 2003 to provide a forum for financial institutions and...
[March 22, 2004, 12:45]
DNS attacks occurring, warns Kaminsky
News A fatal flaw with the Domain Name System is being exploited in internet attacks and more attacks are likely, the security researcher who discovered the flaw said on Thursday. I do think we are going to see attacks.
[August 22, 2008, 8:08]
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]
