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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. 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]
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: 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 It's time to take a stand You can't stop cyberpunks from launching a distributed Denial of Service attack, but savvy solutions providers can take steps to slow down the aggressors and prevent future raids.
[February 9, 2000, 14:45]
Denial-of-Insight Attacks Could Cripple a Critical Value of Enterprise Search
White Papers Security firms, vendors, search technology vendors and enterprises must prepare for denial-of-insight attacks now. The record of terms that customers, partners and prospects use in enterprise search is a key benefit of the technology.
[October 5, 2009, 0:00]
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 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 round-up
News Hacker insurance: it's now all the rage As some of the Web's most heavily trafficked sites fell victim to Denial of Service attacks last week, at least one sector of the burgeoning e-commerce industry had reason to smile.
[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 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]
Distributed Attacks Denial of Service Type: Nature of These Attacks and Defense Against Them
White Papers According to statistical information, published by SANS institute (System Administration, Networking and Security), one of the most critical and devastating classes of computer attacks is that of the (Distributed Denial of Service) type, (DDoS...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Enhancing DNS Resilience Against Denial of Service Attacks
White Papers In the past few years, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have targeted the DNS infrastructure and threaten to disrupt this critical service. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical Internet infrastructure that provides name to address...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Protect Network-Based Power Grid Applications From Denial of Service Attacks
White Papers From these attacks perhaps Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is the most detrimental one that affects the packet delivery. Today distributed industrial networks use Internet to transmit feedback and control signals between a plant and a controller.
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Two Layer Denial of Service Prevention on SIP VoIP Infrastructures
White Papers This paper proposes two layer architecture to prevent Denial of Service attacks on VoIP systems based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). The emergence of Voice over IP (VoIP) has offered numerous advantages for end users and providers alike...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Generic Denial of Service Prevention Through a Logical Fibering Algorithm
White Papers This paper presents the system FiberedGuard, which is an intelligent application for the prevention of Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The main basis of FiberedGuard is a new data structure, which was...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
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. It is popularly called SYN flooding. It works by an attacker sending many TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) connection requests with spoofed...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
TRACK: A Novel Approach for Defending Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Papers This paper presents a novel countermeasure against Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks that they call the rouTer poRt mArking and paCKet filtering (TRACK), which includes the functions of both IP traceback and packet filtering.
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Identification of Feature Denial of Services
White Papers On the other hand, the approach by interdiction may eliminate all features candidate for execution, and this result on a feature denial of service. This paper analyzes how feature denial of service can be detected, with a design stage algorithm.
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
