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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 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 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]
A Year Ago: Denial of Service round-up
News Deconstructing Denial of Service attacks An in-depth assessment of what effect these attacks may have on the technology industry in the long term. ZDNet looks into these Denial of Service attacks in detail, examining how they were carried out, what...
[February 9, 2001, 6:06]
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]
Special: Denial of Service round-up
News ZDNet looks into these Denial of Service attacks in detail, examining how they were carried out, what the ongoing risks will be, and assessing the possible reverberations in the world of Internet technology and e-commerce.
[February 9, 2000, 14:45]
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 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]
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. In trust management, a server often needs to evaluate a chain of credentials submitted by a client...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
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 distributed Denial-of-Service attacks have really done a lot to get people to focus on a lot of things that...
[April 5, 2000, 13:20]
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]
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]
Accurately Measuring Denial of Service in Simulation and Testbed Experiments
White Papers Researchers in the Denial of Service (DoS) field lack accurate, quantitative and versatile metrics to measure service denial in simulation and testbed experiments. Finally, they are not accurate since they were not proven to correspond to human...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
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. With the inherent resource limitations of WSN devices, they are particularly susceptible...
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
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]
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. This approach is based on understanding both attack and defense mechanisms, and selecting a cost-effective set of defenses using risk management.
[October 1, 2008, 1:01]
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]
