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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 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 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-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 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 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]
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 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]
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]
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 Cost-Based Framework for Analysis of Denial of Service in Networks
White Papers Denial of service is becoming a growing concern. This paper shows how some principles that have already been used to make cryptographic protocols more resistant to denial of service by trading off the cost to defender against the cost to the...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Rule-Based Defense Mechanism Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Papers Since the number of damage cases resulting from Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks has recently been increasing, the need for agile detection and appropriate response mechanisms against DDoS attacks has also been increasing.
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
Protecting Wireless Networks Against a Denial of Service Attack Based on Virtual Jamming
White Papers This paper has proposed a NAV validation scheme to eliminate such vulnerabilities and to successfully defend against a Denial of Service (DoS) attack based on virtual jamming. The IEEE 802.11 MAC scheme may suffer from a number of vulnerabilities...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Flash Crowds and Denial of Service Attacks: Characterization and Implications for CDNs and Web Sites
White Papers The paper studies two types of events that often overload Web sites to a point when their services are degraded or disrupted entirely - Flash Events (FEs) and Denial of Service attacks (DoS). The former are created by legitimate requests and the...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
D-WARD: A Source-End Defense Against Flooding Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Papers Defenses against flooding distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) commonly respond to the attack by dropping the excess traffic, thus reducing the overload at the victim. The major challenge is the differentiation of the legitimate from the attack...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Mitigating Denial of Service Threats in GSM Networks
White Papers With respect to security, the emerging risks of Denial Of Service (DOS) attacks will evolve into a critical danger as the availability of mobile networks becomes more and more important for the modern information society.
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Exposing and Eliminating Vulnerabilities to Denial of Service Attacks in Secure Gossip-Based Multicast
White Papers This paper proposes a framework and methodology for quantifying the effect of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on a distributed system. They present a systematic study of the resistance of gossip-based multicast protocols to DoS attacks.
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Using NetFlow Auditor to Assist in Identifying Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks and Other Network Behavior Anomalies
White Papers This Paper covers how Denial of Service Attacks (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDos) can be identified early to mitigate and attack. A game-changing Network Auditing technology called NetFlow Auditor has the potential to enhance...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
