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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]
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: 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]
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]
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]
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]
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 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 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 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]
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks: Evolution, Impact, & Solutions
White Papers Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks have existed since the early days of computing and have evolved into complex and overwhelming security challenges. Organizations have had to worry not just about DoS attacks, but Distributed DoS attacks (DDoS), and...
[October 6, 2009, 0:00]
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]
Containing Denial-of-Service Attacks in Broadcast Authentication in Sensor Networks
White Papers Public Key Cryptography (PKC) is desirable for this application, but due to the resource constraints on sensor nodes, these operations are expensive, which means sensor networks using PKC are susceptible to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Defending Government Network Infrastructure Against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
White Papers Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are a class of network security threat whereby one or more attackers target network resources and servers to deny service to legitimate users. Increasingly, such attacks come from multiple, physically and network...
[August 22, 2005, 6:00]
Mitigating Denial of Service Attacks in Computer Networks
White Papers This dissertation studies how to defend against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks in computer networks. As it is not possible to prevent these attacks, one must concentrate on mitigating them. A comprehensive approach for mitigating DoS attacks is...
[October 1, 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]
An Efficient Filter for Denial-of-Service Bandwidth Attacks
White Papers This paper presents an efficient method for detecting and filtering denial-of-service bandwidth attacks. The system called TOPS (Tabulated Online Packet Statistics) can monitor a large number of network addresses in a compact, fixed-size structure...
[July 11, 2008, 1:02]
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. Therefore, service providers' offerings must include advanced security solutions.
[March 16, 2009, 4:32]
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]
