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Denial of Service Attack Techniques: Analysis, Implementation and Comparison
White Papers A Denial of Service attack (DOS) is any type of attack on a networking structure to disable a server from servicing its clients. This paper shows the implementation and analysis of three main types of attack: Ping of Death, TCP SYN Flood, and...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
A Silent SMS Denial of Service (DoS) Attack
White Papers In contrast, a mass continuous send of "Silent" SMS messages constitutes an invisible Denial of Service (DoS) attack on a mobile handset. This paper describes, from a technical perspective, how a silent application-generated denial of service (DoS...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Twitter suffers denial of service attack
Blog Popular micro-blogging site Twitter has suffered a denial of service attack. We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly," said the status page. Programmer Barrett Lyon wrote in a blog post that site...
[August 6, 2009, 18:10]
Analysis of a Denial of Service Attack on TCP
White Papers This paper analyzes a network-based denial of service attack for IP (Internet Protocol) based networks. The paper contributes a detailed analysis of the SYN flooding attack and a discussion of existing and proposed countermeasures.
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service Attack: Detection and Countermeasures
White Papers Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are specific attacks that attempt to prevent legitimate users from accessing networks, servers, services or other resources. The impacts of DoS attacks are causing greater...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Detection and Prevention of DNS Query PTR Record-Based Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
White Papers The syslog messages of the topdomain DNS servers in Kumamoto University were statistically investigated when having receiving a large amount of DNS query packets like a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack.
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
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]
Protecting Wireless Networks Against a Denial of Service Attack Based on Virtual Jamming
White Papers This paper has proposed a NAV validation scheme to eliminate such vulnerabilities and to successfully defend against a Denial of Service (DoS) attack based on virtual jamming. The IEEE 802.11 MAC scheme may suffer from a number of vulnerabilities...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
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
News Story to follow What do you think? Tell the Mailroom. And read what others have said.
[February 9, 2000, 14:32]
Denial of Service Attack Detection Using Extended Analog Computers
White Papers Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, a damaging assault on computer networking infrastructure, have been extensively examined by the digital computing community. However, no work has been done to examine the ability of Extended Analog Computers (EAC...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Empirical Analysis of Denial of Service Attack Against SMTP Servers
White Papers The paper implemented an environment to test SMTP server performance focusing on Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. This paper shows that the performance of the generic SMTP servers are more limited than one previously thought.
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
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]
A Case Study: Using Architectural Features to Improve Sophisticated Denial-of-Service Attack Detections
White Papers However, the relationship between hardware architecture events and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks has not been well revealed. Application features such as port numbers are used by Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs) to detect attacks...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Patch: Denial of Service Attack With SFU 2.0
Downloads Download now to prevent an attacker deliberately sending such requests in order to deplete kernel memory and prevent the server from performing useful service. Among the components provided by Services for Unix (SFU) 2.0 are services that implement...
[July 23, 2001, 8:00]
Trivial Denial of Service Attack Against TCP-Based VPN
White Papers The paper discusses an impact of a trivial DoS attack on the robustness and availability of TCP-based VPN. In past few years there was a substantial growth of VPN solutions that used TCP as a primary packet carrier.
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
A BitTorrent-Driven Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
White Papers This central point of control provides an opportunity for a file distributor to deploy a modified tracker to provide peers in a swarm with malicious coordination data, directing peer connection traffic toward an arbitrary target machine on an...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Improved Detection System of Denial of Service Attack
White Papers Most of the existing Intrusion detection systems implemented nowadays depend on rule-based expert systems where new attacks are not detectable. In this paper, a possible application of Neural Networks is presented as a component of an intrusion...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
An Adaptive Sampling Algorithm With Applications to Denial-of-Service Attack Detection
White Papers There is an emerging need for the traffic processing capability of network security mechanisms, such as Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), to match the high throughput of today's high-bandwidth networks.
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Scraping, Denial of Service, and Brute Force Attacks! Oh My!: Identifying and Controlling Automated Clients
White Papers When a guessed password allows access to the system, the brute force attack has been successful and the attacker is able access the account. Breach Security's product line is uniquely positioned to help organizations address these automated types...
[October 6, 2009, 0:00]
