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Chinese Site Struck By Denial Of Service Attack
News One of China's largest Internet commerce sites has become the latest victim of a Denial of Service attack, according to reports in China's press. IT163.com, which sells goods from China's top 50 retailers, was rendered inoperative by a distributed...
[March 13, 2000, 13:16]
Low-Rate TCP-Targeted Denial Of Service Attack Defense
White Papers Low-rate TCP targeted denial of service attacks are a subset of DoS attacks that exploit the Retransmission TimeOut (RTO) mechanism of TCP. Another property of the periodic traffic, however, is that a low-rate attack's success depends on...
[December 4, 2007, 23:00]
Palm Pilot Open To Denial Of Service Attack
News A hotsync DoS (Denial of Service) attack is not as sexy as breaking into networks via printers, but it still deserves some attention. When Hotsync manager is set to network mode, by sending a large amount of data followed by a new line, it is...
[November 9, 1999, 7:12]
News Burst: Some E*Trade Customers Hit By Denial Of Service Attack
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[February 9, 2000, 14:32]
New Chip May Protect Against Denial Of Service Attack
News A principle application for the chip could be am improved method of detecting and stopping denial of service (DoS) attacks and might well prove useful in fending off the distributed Denial of Service strikes (DDoS) that brought down major Web...
[April 20, 2000, 9:15]
Protection From Distributed Denial Of Service Attack Using History-Based IP Filtering
White Papers This paper introduces a practical scheme to defend against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks based on IP source address filtering. The edge router keeps a history of all the legitimate IP addresses which have previously appeared in the...
[December 6, 2007, 23:00]
Client-Controlled Slow TCP And Denial Of Service
White Papers This kind of trust has been exploited in some DoS attacks, such as SYN-flooding attack. Denials of Service attacks are becoming an increasing threat to the information infrastructure. By exploiting vulnerability in existing protocols and...
[January 14, 2008, 23:00]
The Latest In Denial Of Service Attacks: Smurfing / Description And Information To Minimize Effects
White Papers The information here provides in-depth information regarding "smurf" and "fraggle" attacks, with a focus on Cisco routers and how to reduce the effects of the attack. Some information is general and not related to an organization's particular...
[February 4, 2004, 23:00]
Denial Of Service Attacks Outlawed
News In a denial of service attack, a person attempts to make a computer system unavailable to users by overloading it with data. A UK law has been passed that makes it an offence to launch denial of service attacks, which experts had previously called...
[November 10, 2006, 16:30]
Denial-of-Service: How Big Is This Threat?
News The range of threats to citizens to government to businesses are much, much broader than a denial of service attack that lasts just a few hours," Vadis said. Called the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, the service...
[April 5, 2000, 13:20]
Denial Of Service Hobbles DoubleClick
News Digital marketing and advertising company DoubleClick is staying tight-lipped about the denial-of-service (DoS) attack that hobbled its online ad-serving operation for four hours. We are investigating the cause of the attack, which was similar in...
[July 28, 2004, 12:10]
Electrohippy Promises WTO Denial Of Service
News UK Internet activist and self-confessed "electrohippy" Paul Mobbs is confident that his Web site will co-ordinate a successful denial of service attack against the Web servers of the World Trade Organisation Today.
[November 30, 1999, 10:44]
Denial Of Service Attacks Are Legal 'grey Area'
News A prosecution witness in the trial of a teenager accused of launching an email bomb attack admitted that the legality of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks caused by a flood of email is a legal grey area that IT professionals want clarified.
[November 2, 2005, 11:20]
Hackers Question Denial Of Service As Political Protest
News A row has broken out between UK Internet activists, the Electrohippies, and US ethical hacking group, Cult of the Dead Cow, over whether Denial of Service attacks are a legitimate form of Internet activism.
[March 13, 2000, 11:30]
A Year Ago: Hackers Question Denial Of Service As Political Protest
News A row has broken out between UK Internet activists, the Electrohippies, and US ethical hacking group, Cult of the Dead Cow, over whether Denial of Service attacks are a legitimate form of Internet activism.
[March 13, 2001, 6:03]
Microsoft Discloses Denial Of Service Bugs
News The worst you could do is a denial of service attack. Denial of service (DOS) attacks, which involve bombarding a target, are a relatively simple method of causing disruption to an enemy. Last year a technique for distributing a DoS attack between...
[March 6, 2001, 14:44]
Web Attackers Knock Out Microsoft Sites
News During the morning of 25 January, Microsoft was the target of a denial-of-service attack against the routers that direct traffic to the company's Web sites," Microsoft said in a statement late Thursday afternoon.
[January 26, 2001, 8:18]
Florida Man Charged In Botnet Attack On Akamai
News A Florida man has been charged with launching a distributed denial-of-service attack against servers run by Akamai Technologies. This distributed denial-of-service attack, launched 15 June, 2004, rendered many of Akamai's clients' websites...
[October 25, 2006, 16:40]
Cisco Releases Patches For Router Vulnerabilities
News Cisco has released a security patch to fix vulnerabilities in a number of its products that are at risk of a denial-of-service attack. The security flaws could allow attackers to send a few small packets through the routers to shut down the network...
[May 25, 2007, 9:43]
SCO Web Attacks Cease
News The SCO Group's Web site and file servers are back online, after being hit by a denial-of-service attack that cut off access for almost two days. The requests took up computing resources and consumed Internet bandwidth as part of the denial-of...
[December 15, 2003, 12:15]
