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A Silent SMS Denial of Service (DoS) Attack
White Papers In contrast, a mass continuous send of "Silent" SMS messages constitutes an invisible Denial of Service (DoS) attack on a mobile handset. Such a mobile handset DoS attack may be conducted for economic advantage to elude another party from...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Former YouSendIt chief accused of DoS attack
News Each DoS attack temporarily rendered the servers incapable of handling legitimate network traffic and deprived YouSendIt's customers use of the company's services," said the FBI statement. Shaikh, who left the firm in November 2006, is accused of...
[November 2, 2009, 14:20]
Fur trade activists planning DoS attack
News Fur trade protestors are planning to launch a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against the fur industry on Valentine's Day. ECD claims that people who take part in this DoS attack will not be breaking the law.
[January 25, 2005, 15:30]
Cloud Nine sells up after DoS attack
News Cloud Nine, the UK Internet service provider (ISP) that closed down this week after being hit by a denial of service (DoS) attack, announced early on Thursday morning that it had sold its assets and customer base to fellow ISP ZetNet.
[January 24, 2002, 13:08]
Netgear flaw triggers 'accidental' DoS attack
News Network hardware maker Netgear has warned its customers of a flaw in some of its router products that could set off an "accidental" denial of service (DoS) attack. Earlier this year, the University of Wisconsin's NTP server was the victim of a huge...
[August 26, 2003, 13:50]
Exclusive: Big Brother was hit by DoS attack
News Hackers hit Channel 4's Big Brother Web site last Tuesday with what has been described as a "massive denial of access (DoS) attack". Short now admits the DoS attack happened "when the first show went live", but is satisfied there have been no...
[July 25, 2000, 16:43]
Students propose defence for DoS attack
News In two papers presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy on Monday, graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University suggested simple modifications to network software that could defeat denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
[May 13, 2003, 13:30]
VeriSign: DoS attack could shut down internet
News The company claimed that a successful denial-of-service (DoS) attack against VeriSign could bring down the internet. Silva said that although DoS attacks are difficult to trace, there are "a couple of well-known groups in Russia, China and Romania...
[September 25, 2007, 17:20]
SCO shaken by 'biggest ever' DOS attack
Talkback i recive email whit virus 2-3 letter per-day,whit unknown mail sender.I send him back a worm to test if he/she will send me back the email,they use mass exploit for mail bombing.How to keep this worm get off from my email,every time i opened my...
[February 2, 2004, 17:36]
SCO shaken by 'biggest ever' DOS attack
Talkback This not about the community Unix/Linux but this about who pay the attacker to destroy and shutting down SCO
[April 2, 2004, 19:23]
SCO shaken by 'biggest ever' DOS attack
Talkback Personally if the MyDoom virus only attakcs SCO computer servers, I think someone should set-up a site to download it! I want it - Where can I get it from to join the fight against SCO. I think they honestly plan to ruin the Linux and Unix...
[February 12, 2004, 23:44]
Mobile phone vulnerable to DoS attack
News US-based security company @stake has released a security advisory detailing a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the Nokia 6210 GSM mobile phone, and although the flaw isn't serious it could be a sign of worse things to come.
[February 26, 2003, 13:23]
'Private photos' worm could launch DoS attack
News The worm also attempts to launch a denial-of-service attack by sending large volumes of "garbage data" to Web addresses associated with DarkProfits, a gaming enthusiast site that has been the subject of a persistent email hoax.
[November 3, 2003, 8:15]
Police force hit with iPod DoS attack
News Malicious spammers have hit Cambridgeshire police with a denial of service attack by threatening recipients of emails to charge their credit cards unless they call a 'customer service' number that is actually the main switchboard number for the...
[December 5, 2003, 14:45]
Al-Jazeera suffers DoS attack
News The Web sites of Al-Jazeera have been taken offline, in what has been confirmed by the Qatar-based media organisation as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the company's Domain Name Servers (DNS).
[March 27, 2003, 14:09]
Linux kernel flaw allows DoS attack
News Linux distributor Novell SuSE released a security advisory with a severity rating of nine out of 10 last week warning of a flaw in Linux kernel 2.6. The bug affects the company's enterprise and consumer products-- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and...
[October 25, 2004, 17:40]
White House confirms third DoS attack in a month
News The White House Web site has been hit by its third denial of service attack this month, which rendered the site inaccessible for more than six hours on Tuesday. The White House has confirmed that the build of traffic created through the attack was...
[May 25, 2001, 12:52]
SCO shaken by 'biggest ever' DOS attack
News The MyDoom computer virus knocked out SCO Group's Web site on Sunday, and the company expects the massive denial-of-service attack to continue until 12 February. The speed and severity of the attack surprised security officials.
[February 2, 2004, 7:15]
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. This paper shows the implementation and analysis of three main types of attack: Ping of Death, TCP SYN Flood, and...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Networks hit by co-ordinated attack
News The attack involves co-ordinating a simultaneous DoS strike from an unusually large number of compromised and remotely controlled machines. The ISS alert describes the attack in uncompromising terms, calling it "more powerful than any previous DoS...
[December 8, 1999, 12:28]
