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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...
[March 22, 2004, 23:00]
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 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]
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...
[April 3, 2008, 0:00]
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 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]
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]
Distributed Denial Of Service Attacks
White Papers Network-based denial of service attacks became popular after the SYN floods that took Web servers down in 1996. Winnuke, teardrop, Land, bonk, snork, smurf are but a few of the denial of service attacks that crash systems or clog networks.
[January 17, 2004, 23:00]
Low-Rate TCP-Targeted Denial Of Service Attack Defense
White Papers Low-rate TCP targeted denial of service attacks are a subset of DoS attacks that exploit the Retransmission TimeOut (RTO) mechanism of TCP. In doing so, such an attack can drastically reduce throughput while producing little traffic relative to...
[December 4, 2007, 23:00]
Microsoft Discloses Denial Of Service Bugs
News The worst you could do is a denial of service attack. Denial of service (DOS) attacks, which involve bombarding a target, are a relatively simple method of causing disruption to an enemy. A flaw found in two major Microsoft business applications...
[March 6, 2001, 14:44]
Chinese Site Struck By Denial Of Service Attack
News One of China's largest Internet commerce sites has become the latest victim of a Denial of Service attack, according to reports in China's press. IT163.com, which sells goods from China's top 50 retailers, was rendered inoperative by a distributed...
[March 13, 2000, 13:16]
Hackers Question Denial Of Service As Political Protest
News A row has broken out between UK Internet activists, the Electrohippies, and US ethical hacking group, Cult of the Dead Cow, over whether Denial of Service attacks are a legitimate form of Internet activism.
[March 13, 2000, 11:30]
New Denial Of Service Menace Uncovered
News A new distributed denial of service threat, with the potential to disable large Web sites, has been uncovered by US computer security firm Network Security Technologies, the company said Friday. Thousands of Trojan horse programs, which allow a...
[June 9, 2000, 11:58]
Microsoft Zombie Hacker Denial Condemned
News Microsoft's assurances that Windows XP will not make it easier for hackers to launch damaging Denial of Service (DoS) attacks across the Internet have been dismissed by the security expert who first alerted the company to the issue.
[June 11, 2001, 16:17]
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]
Inferring Internet Denial-of-Service Activity
White Papers In this paper, we seek to answer a simple question: “How prevalent are denial-of-service attacks in the Internet today? We present a new technique, called “backscatter analysis,” that provides an estimate of worldwide denial-of-service activity.
[November 10, 2003, 23:00]
Detecting Distributed Denial Of Service Attacks Using Source IP Address Monitoring
White Papers This paper proposes a simple but robust scheme to detect denial of service attacks (including distributed denial of service attacks) by monitoring the increase of new IP addresses. Unlike previous proposals for bandwidth attack detection schemes...
[December 6, 2007, 23:00]
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]
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 15, 2004, 23:00]
