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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]
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]
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 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]
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 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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Banks under fire as phishing attacks accelerate
News Phishing attacks on banking organisations and their customers across the globe have increased steadily over the past six months, according to the latest fraud report from security software specialist RSA.
[March 19, 2008, 7:43]
Wireless Attacks and Defense
White Papers This paper explains how wireless attacks are done on Wired Equivalency Privacy (WEP) networks, other common network attacks and then present several options to defend wireless networks. As more and more home and business users adapt wireless...
[November 10, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft warns of targeted Word attacks
News Microsoft has warned of a potential vulnerability in Word that has reportedly been the subject of targeted attacks. According to Microsoft Security Advisory 953635, the software company is investigating reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft...
[July 9, 2008, 17:11]
Susceptibility of Wireless Devices to Denial of Service Attacks
White Papers This paper presents a selection of DoS attacks on WLAN and ZigBee, discusses the implications and possible countermeasures. DoS is a real threat for wireless technologies and could become a show-stopper in some critical applications.
[November 10, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft warns of ActiveX attacks targeting Access
News Microsoft issued a security advisory on Monday warning about targeted attacks that exploit a hole in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer in the Microsoft Access database-management system. An attacker would have to lure a victim, via a link...
[July 8, 2008, 8:29]
A Lightweight RFID Protocol to Protect Against Traceability and Cloning Attacks
White Papers However, this pervasive use of RFID tags opens up the possibility for various attacks violating user privacy. The authors' have designed a protocol with both tag-to-reader and reader-to-tag authentication in mind; unless types of authentication are...
[February 10, 2006, 0:01]
Ripple-Stream: Safeguarding P2P Streaming Against DoS Attacks
White Papers Compared with file-sharing and Distributed Hash Table (DHT) network, P2P video streaming is more vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks because of its high bandwidth demand and stringent time requirement.
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
