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A Year Ago: Denial of Service round-up
News Denial of Service hacker hits MSNBC A hacker implicated in the distributed Denial of Service attacks on a number of high profile Internet sites last week has been involved in attacks on MSNBC's chat server, according to reports.
[February 9, 2001, 6:06]
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. Attacks range from sending millions of requests to a server in an attempt to slow it down, flooding a server with large...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Denial of Service attacks loom in GM food protest
News British cyber-activists, angry at the advent of GM foods, have pledged to launch Denial of Service attacks on several multinational organisations involved with the controversial foodstuffs. The Electrohippies promise "an email and client-side...
[March 16, 2000, 16:27]
A Year Ago: Denial of Service attacks loom in GM food protest
News Denial of Service strikes will coincide with GM protest week British cyber-activists, angry at the advent of GM foods, have pledged to launch Denial of Service attacks on several multinational organisations involved with the controversial foodstuffs.
[March 16, 2001, 6:03]
Denial of Service Attacks and the Emergence of Intrusion Prevention Systems
White Papers Since 2000, Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been prevalent across the internet. The purpose of this paper is to give an in depth look at what exactly denial of service attacks are, what forms they come...
[July 14, 2009, 1:19]
Denial of Service Attacks in Networks With Tiny Buffers
White Papers However, reducing buffer sizes might pose new security risks: it is much easier to fill up tiny buffers, and thus organizing Denial of Service (DoS) attacks seems easier in a network with tiny buffers.
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
Denial of Service Attacks and Defenses in Decentralized Trust Management
White Papers This paper studies low-bandwidth Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks that exploit the existence of trust management systems to deplete server resources. Trust management is an approach to scalable and flexible access control in decentralized systems.
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Denial of service attacks outlawed
News A UK law has been passed that makes it an offence to launch denial of service attacks, which experts had previously called "a legal grey area. In a denial of service attack, a person attempts to make a computer system unavailable to users by...
[November 10, 2006, 16:30]
Denial of Service Protection With Beaver
White Papers This paper presents Bea Beaver, a method and architecture to "Build dams" to protect servers from Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Beaver allows efficient filtering of DoS traffic using lo low-cost, high-performance, readily-available packet...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Denial of Service attacks: Linux to the rescue?
News For example, TripWire tripped up distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) Trojan infections by finding the obnoxious programs hidden deep in the operating system. According to Ransom Love, president and CEO of Caldera Systems, secure business Linux "is...
[March 1, 2000, 9:07]
Special: Denial of Service round-up
News Denial of Service hacker hits MSNBC A hacker implicated in the distributed Denial of Service attacks on a number of high profile Internet sites last week has been involved in attacks on MSNBC's chat server, according to reports.
[February 9, 2000, 14:45]
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]
Denial-of-Service: How big is this threat?
News The attacks included theft of proprietary information, financial fraud, system penetration by outsiders and denial-of-service attacks. The range of threats to citizens to government to businesses are much, much broader than a denial of 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. Jon Moffat, director of DoubleClick's Asia Pacific customer support...
[July 28, 2004, 12:10]
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]
Traffic-Adaptive Packet Filtering of Denial of Service Attacks
White Papers This paper presents two novel contributions - a first ever working implementation of a traffic adaptive firewall, based on insertion of shortcuts into a search tree, and both a simulated and a real-life performance study of adaptive packet...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Framework for Defending Against Denial of Service Attacks in Wireless Networks
White Papers Wireless mobile nodes have extremely limited resources and are easily vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. The traditional techniques that can detect or prevent DoS attacks in wired networks often require considerable resources such as...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
A Taxonomy for Denial-of-Service Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers One such attack is that of Denial-Of-Service (DOS), which is believed will only become more prevalent as sensor networks become more pervasive and accessible. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are transitioning to real-world applications, where they...
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
Preventing Distributed Denial of Service Attacks by Perturbing TCP Traffic
White Papers This paper discusses a method for preventing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that use spoofed source IP addresses by monitoring TCP traffic. The method requires dropping TCP packets from client to server and monitoring the effect of...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
CARE: Enhancing Denial-of-Service Resilience in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers Different from existing solutions, CARE does not focus on a particular type of attack, but instead takes a fundamentally general approach - it achieves resilience against a wide range of routing disruption Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks by...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
