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DDoS-Resilient Scheduling To Counter Application Layer Attacks Under Imperfect Detection
White Papers Countering Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is becoming ever more challenging with the vast resources and techniques increasingly available to attackers. To protect servers from these attacks, they propose a counter-mechanism that...
[January 7, 2007, 0:00]
DDoS Threatens Financial Institutions - Get Prepared!
White Papers Hackers that know how to create spam machines or spyware can generate DDoS attacks. In addition, a DDoS attack is generated with the help of many (potentially hundreds of thousands) unsuspecting zombie machines and it is not possible to stop the...
[May 5, 2006, 1:00]
Cisco - Strategies To Protect Against Distributed Denial Of Service (DDoS) Attacks
White Papers In order to facilitate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), the attackers need to have several hundred to several thousand compromised hosts. This white paper contains information to help the reader understand how DDoS attacks are orchestrated...
[November 1, 2006, 0:00]
DDoS Is Neither Dead Nor Forgotten
White Papers It has been over a year since the infamous Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS) blocked access to several prominent e-commerce and Web sites. But DDoS lives on. Since the first DDoS tool was captured and analyzed in the fall of 1999, eight...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Distributed Denial Of Service (DDoS) Mitigation Services Based On Cisco Systems Clean Pipes - Protection, Profits, And Productivity
White Papers Successful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks resulted in reported losses in the millions of dollars in 2005 alone. A number of service providers have reacted to the needs of their customers and currently offer automated, network-based...
[October 6, 2006, 1:00]
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]
Mitigating Sasser, Distributed Denial Of Service (DDoS) And Day-Zero Attacks: The Cisco Threat Defense System
White Papers Join Manager of Product Marketing, Scott Pope as he discusses how to better address today's security challenges, including security threats like DDoS and Day-Zero attacks, security costs, and risk management, with the Cisco Threat Defense System.
[June 16, 2004, 0:06]
Protecting Public Servers From DDoS Attacks Using Drifting Overlays
White Papers Drifting Overlays enable enterprises a level of control over their own Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) defenses and routing choices, rather than leaving them at the mercy of their ISPs. Drifting Overlays are dynamic partial network-layer...
[October 19, 2007, 1:00]
TCP Flow Analysis For Defense Against Shrew DDoS Attacks
White Papers The shrew or RoS attacks are low-rate DDoS attacks that degrade the QoS to end systems slowly but not to deny the services completely. These attacks are more difficult to detect than the flooding type of DDoS attacks.
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
DDoS Attacks - One Year Later
News The so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that knocked out Yahoo! At 9.15am on 7 February, 2000, AT&T researcher Steve Bellovin walked up to the podium at the North American Network Operators' Group and started a talk.
[February 7, 2001, 12:47]
Defending Wireless Infrastructure Against The Challenge Of DDoS Attacks
White Papers This paper addresses possible Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks toward the wireless Internet including the Wireless Extended Internet, the Wireless Portal Network, and the Wireless Ad Hoc network.
[May 10, 2006, 1:00]
Opinion: On Magic, IRC Wars, And DDoS
White Papers I was on a TV discussion panel about the recent massive distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against major portals and e-commerce sites. One of the panelists was gushing about how these attacks were much more sophisticated than any before.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Cisco Distributed Denial Of Service Protection Solution: Leading DDoS Protection For Service Providers And Their Customers
White Papers Today, service providers and their customers are exposed to a growing number of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which can damage revenues and reputations. This paper explains the Cisco DDoS Protection solution, part of the IP Next...
[November 3, 2005, 0:00]
DDoS Mitigation Via Regional Cleaning Centers
White Papers This paper addresses the problem of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks at the ISP level by introducing the concept of regional cleaning centers. These centers perform the necessary traffic cleaning when a set of destination hosts is under...
[October 14, 2004, 0:20]
Implementing Pushback: Router-Based Defense Against DDoS Attacks
White Papers Pushback is a mechanism for defending against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks are treated as a congestion-control problem, but because most such congestion is caused by malicious hosts not obeying traditional end-to-end...
[December 23, 2003, 5:20]
Pushback: Router-Based Defense Against DDoS Attacks
White Papers This paper presents a system for defending against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks are treated as a congestion-control problem, where the main issue is identifying the subset of trafffic, which we call an aggregate...
[December 23, 2003, 22:56]
Anti-DDoS Virtualized Operating System
White Papers It is easier to detect a DDoS attack near the victim but it is of little use to do so. Many researchers believe that it would be best to handle DDoS attacks closer to the computers which host these attacks and have propounded various strategies for...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Worm Could Be Clearing Path For DDoS Attack
News A new worm that leaves behind two Trojan horse programs has begun spreading over the Internet, and may be paving the way for a crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The IRC bot, when activated, connects to a remote server and waits...
[March 10, 2003, 8:53]
UK Gambling Company Warns Of DDoS-attack Risk
News Gala Coral e-commerce's gambling sites were taken down for almost 30 minutes by the next-generation 10Gb distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, delegates at the e-Crime Congress 2008 in London were told this week.
[March 7, 2008, 14:04]
Symbiot Launches DDoS Counter-strike Tool
Talkback Graham Titterington] added that because many hacking and DDoS attacks are launched from hijacked computers, the system would be unlikely to find its real target: "Attacks are often launched from a site that has been hijacked, making it an...
[March 17, 2004, 18:53]
