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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 (DoS): Preparation Is The Best Antidote
White Papers This paper will discuss denial of service (DoS), what it is, and what is needed to prepare against it. Hackers can bottleneck resources and prevent service in situations where downtime means lost revenue, reputation, and poor customer service.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
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 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 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
White Papers This white paper is written to help those concerned about denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, such those recently experienced by e-Bay, Yahoo, Amazon.com and other well-known online companies. The purpose of the paper is to provide executives with an...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
Start-Ups Go On Attack Vs. Denial-of-Service Threat
White Papers Four start-ups with their roots in university research are separately concentrating on combating denial-of-service network attacks, a huge threat to e-commerce and a daunting technical challenge because it is so difficult to distinguish "good...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Denial-of-Service Attacks On Battery-Powered Mobile Computers
White Papers Sleep deprivation attacks are a form of denial of service attack whereby an attacker renders a pervasive computing device inoperable by draining the battery more quickly than it would be drained under normal usage.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Cisco Security Advisory: Denial Of Service Vulnerability In Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Software
White Papers The Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) software contains a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability that may cause some devices that run WAAS software (WAE appliance and NM-WAE 502 module) to stop processing all types of traffic, including...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Denial Of Service Attacks On The Rise
White Papers Statistical analysis confirms that vulnerabilities in computer systems have increased, and that "Denial of Service" exploitation of these vulnerabilities, as measured by web site defacements, has also increased.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Denial-of-Service Attacks: Understanding Network Vulnerabilities
White Papers Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, in which legitimate users are denied access to Web servers and target systems, can pose especially serious problems for services companies. Today's complex network environments and Web hosting systems, vulnerable to...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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 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: 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 FAQ
White Papers Denial of service attacks are designed to bring down an enterprise network or e-commerce site by flooding it with large amounts of traffic, similar to hundreds of people repeatedly dialing a telephone number to keep it busy and unavailable.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Distributed Denial Of Service Review
White Papers In recent days mass denial of service attacks or DoS as I will refer to them in the rest of this paper have ocurred on various high traffic Internet websites. Such sites that have fallen victim include: Yahoo!
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
A Distributed Defeat For Distributed Denial Of Service
White Papers Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become a serious problem since the second half of 1999. They are at heart a manifestation of what economists call the `tragedy of the commons': while everyone may have an interest in protecting a...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
A Counter Defense To Denial Of Service Attacks And Other Cyber Threats
White Papers The recent Denial of Service attacks that have drawn national headlines symbolize the need for networks to shore up their sites in order to handle the onslaught of legitimate new users - but also to protect their sites from cyber-terrorists whose...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
