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Q1 2009 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Report
White Papers Contained within the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) report for the first Quarter (Q1) of 2009 are news items regarding noteworthy cyber attacks and botnets, the individuals or organizations responsible for their perpetration, arrests 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]
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks: Evolution, Impact, & Solutions
White Papers Organizations have had to worry not just about DoS attacks, but Distributed DoS attacks (DDoS), and more recently, Distributed Reflector DoS (DRDoS) attacks. As such, other more powerful DDoS variants are on the horizon.
[October 6, 2009, 0:00]
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]
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...
[January 14, 2009, 23:28]
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]
LADS: Large-Scale Automated DDoS Detection System
White Papers The last few years have seen a steady rise in the occurrence and sophistication of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. This paper investigates the design space for in-network DDoS detection and presents a triggered, multi-stage approach...
[August 28, 2009, 1:24]
SCO site suffers DDoS outage
News At 10:45 a.m.the Unix and Linux seller was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) that hampered its Internet operations, said SCO spokesman Blake Stowell. In a DDoS attack, numerous computers simultaneously send so much data across a...
[May 6, 2003, 7:46]
Web criminals hit Betfair with DDOS attack
News In an statement posted on its site, Betfair told its users that it been the victim of a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. DDOS attacks are used by malicious Web users to prevent a server from functioning properly by flooding it with...
[July 1, 2004, 11:10]
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]
Viruses and DDoS attacks flood UK firms
News Half of UK businesses fell victim to either a virus or distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in the past year, a 25 percent increase on the year before, according to latest research carried out on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry.
[March 2, 2004, 13:10]
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]
A Year Ago: New DDoS attack tool in development
News MStream flies under the radar of a technique known as egress filtering, designed to stop DDoS attacks The tool, known as MStream, seems to be able to fly under the radar of a technique known as egress filtering, designed to stop DDoS attacks.
[May 1, 2001, 6:00]
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]
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]
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...
[March 16, 2009, 4:32]
Hybrid DDoS worm strikes Microsoft SQL Server
News A known vulnerability in Microsoft SQL server systems is being targeted by a hybrid worm that combines a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) with the automated propagation techniques used by worms such as Code Red.
[November 23, 2001, 13:38]
Feds take DDoS in their stride
Blog Reports that the attacks may be coming from North Korea could be premature, the government source added, saying that DDoS attacks are often difficult to attribute. The US Department of Homeland Security has said that a series of distributed denial...
[July 8, 2009, 18:18]
Dept of Homeland Security caused 'mini-DDoS'
News In the next hour or so, dozens of readers have replied, creating a mini-DDoS of sorts to the subscriber's inboxes," wrote Sachs. A contractor for the US Department of Homeland Security has initiated "a mini denial of service" against thousands of...
[October 5, 2007, 16:24]
