Previous
DoS Worm Invades Microsoft Servers
News Discovered this week, the worm -- dubbed DoS.Storm -- infects Microsoft Web servers and then scans for new machines to infect, floods Microsoft's main Web site with data, and sends a deluge of obscene email to an apparently invalid address for...
[June 11, 2001, 8:47]
DoS Attacks: The Plague For Our Times?
Talkback The concluding sentiments that we know little more about Dos after all these years, and that few vendors have a solution, especially against sustained DDoS attacks, is simply untrue. Jonathan's article is interesting, but based on personal opinion...
[November 8, 2005, 10:09]
DoS Attacks: The Plague For Our Times?
Talkback The concluding sentiments that we know little more about Dos after all these years, and that few vendors have a solution, especially against sustained DDoS attacks, is simply untrue. Jonathan's article is interesting, but based on personal opinion...
[November 8, 2005, 10:22]
Stopping Attacks: The Importance Of Denial Of Service (DoS) Security Appliances
White Papers This paper outlines the history and extent of DoS/DDoS problems and examines how a network can easily be secured against all types of DoS attacks by employing firewall and DoS mitigation systems together.
[December 27, 2003, 23:00]
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]
DoS: The Story Behind The Story
News Few people may understand the precise mechanics of a DoS attack, save that it enlists a number of systems to converge on a single Internet server or site at a command from a remote terminal. Nonetheless, a great deal of worry was generated by the...
[April 6, 2000, 13:54]
DoS Attacks: The Plague For Our Times?
News Several years ago, I worked at a small Web site hosting company, where I first encountered the confusion and havoc caused by a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. Unfortunately, DoS attacks have evolved into much more than one company trying to cause...
[November 7, 2005, 10:35]
Make Linux Act Like DOS With These Shell Scripts
White Papers You can use these Linux scripts to make the Linux command prompt respond to common DOS commands. One of the most challenging things an IT support professional faces when adopting Linux is learning a whole new set of command line utilities.
[May 17, 2006, 0:00]
Juniper Routers Get Anti-DoS Protection
News The most notable addition to be announced on Wednesday is "flow monitoring", which has become a reliable way to stop denial of service (DoS) attacks, according to Infonetics Research executive director Jeff Wilson.
[May 28, 2003, 12:22]
On The Detection Of Signaling DoS Attacks On 3G Wireless Networks
White Papers This paper identifies and studies a novel Denial of Service (DoS) attack, called signaling attack that exploits the unique vulnerabilities the signaling/control plane in 3G wireless networks. Third Generation (3G) wireless networks based on the...
[August 30, 2007, 0:00]
Firefox 1.5 DoS Flaw Made Public
News Exploit code for the latest version of Mozilla's Firefox browser was published Wednesday, potentially putting users at risk of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. This stalled browser creates a DoS condition," Ullrich said.
[December 9, 2005, 8:15]
Irate Football Fans Launched DoS Attacks
News Legal firm Allen & Overy fought off a number of DoS attacks earlier this year when it was negotiating Malcolm Glazer's takeover bid of Manchester United, a company representative has revealed. The current Computer Misuse Act (1990) does not...
[September 21, 2005, 16:50]
Spammers 'hit Schools With DoS Attacks'
News According to Email Systems, some spammers are launching DoS attacks on schools by singling out individual domain addresses and bombarding them with spam and virus-ridden email at up to 100 times the usual rate.
[January 10, 2005, 14:15]
Apache Issues Anti-DoS Patch
News Apache, which makes the popular open-source Web server application, released version 2.0.45 to fix a denial-of-service (DoS) problem. A DoS attack floods a network with data, rendering it inaccessible to legitimate queries.
[April 4, 2003, 10:12]
Design Guide: Arbor Networks' Peakflow DoS
White Papers The Peakflow DoS patent-pending technology focuses on network availability rather than simply identifying threats. Peakflow DoS identifies any traffic anomaly and generates recommendations for mitigating it, thus enabling peak network availability.
[March 12, 2008, 23:00]
Some Issues Raised By DoS Attacks And The TCP/IP Suite
White Papers However, this is not true for Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, for which little has been done, and the only countermeasures which have been presented, are only effective for a limited time. The MetroSec project then aims at studying these badly...
[December 5, 2007, 23:00]
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]
Low-Rate TCP-Targeted DoS Attack Disrupts Internet Routing
White Papers Compared to attacks against end hosts, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against the Internet infrastructure such as those targeted at routers can be more devastating due to their global impact on many networks.
[December 5, 2007, 23:00]
The Mobile Industry’s Growing DoS Risk
Blog The Mobile Industry’s Growing DoS Risk In the not so distant past, major labels such as Yahoo and Amazon have become targets of malicious Denial of Service (DoS) campaigns. DoS campaigns are designed to hit servers so hard with false traffic that...
[April 10, 2008, 1:16]
Ripple-Stream: Safeguarding P2P Streaming Against DoS Attacks
White Papers Compared with file-sharing and Distributed Hash Table (DHT) network, P2P video streaming is more vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks because of its high bandwidth demand and stringent time requirement.
[May 23, 2007, 0:00]
