Detecting Distributed Denial Of Service Attacks Using Source IP Address Monitoring
White Papers The scheme exploits an inherent feature of DDoS attacks, which makes it hard for the attacker to counter this detection scheme by changing their attack signature. This paper proposes a simple but robust scheme to detect denial of service attacks...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Protection From Distributed Denial Of Service Attack Using History-Based IP Filtering
White Papers This paper introduces a practical scheme to defend against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks based on IP source address filtering. The paper presents several heuristic methods to make the IP address database accurate and robust, and it...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Windows XP Slammed As Gift To 'zombie' Hackers
News A system administrator can try to repel a DDoS attack by identifying the IP address of the computers involved in the attack and block all data requests from those addresses. However, raw socket implementation will allow a computer running Windows...
[June 7, 2001, 10:58]
DoS Attacks: The Plague For Our Times?
News These days, the number-one threat to the Internet as a whole is the targeted distributed DoS (DDoS) attack, which uses vast armies of compromised broadband computers. Fighting a DDoS attack is like trying to swim up Niagara Falls.
[November 7, 2005, 10:35]
Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding Enhancements For The Internet Service Provider - Internet Service Provider Network Edge
White Papers This increases resistance against DoS/DDoS attacks that use spoofed source addresses based on RFC1918, Martian, and unallocated IP addresses. This allows an ISP peering router with multiple links to multiple ISPs to check the source IP address of...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
On Design And Evaluation Of “Intention-Driven” ICMP Traceback
White Papers Recently, the problem of attack source tracing has drawn a lot of attentions as many DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks (which affected many popular web sites such as Yahoo! E-Bay, CNN among many others,) utilize IP source address spoofing.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
DNS Recursion Leads To Nastier DoS Attacks
News But in this latest spate of DDoS attacks, bots are sending queries to DNS servers with the return address pointed at the targeted victim. While it is possible to stop a bot-delivered DDoS attack by blocking the bots' IP addresses, blocking queries...
[March 17, 2006, 9:05]
Security Pros Dig In For New DoS Attacks
News As vendors such as Asta Networks and Mazu Networks prepare to launch their anti-DDoS solutions in the coming weeks, attackers across the Internet are fine-tuning their tools and creating sophisticated assaults designed to elude even the best...
[June 18, 2001, 16:05]
Microsoft: Phishing Is Going Out Of Fashion
News They use botnets to attempt to extort money, by launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against an organisation's systems with information, causing it to crash. Rather than law enforcement dealing with the problem, Gibson said that...
[December 13, 2006, 12:46]
Hackers Strike At Islamic Web Sites
News System administrators can download the "Find DDoS", which can detect whether a computer has been infected by the most common distributed denial of service (DDoS) agents, from the NPIC Web site here. If opened, this virus, which arrives via an email...
[September 18, 2001, 10:13]
Open-source Leaders: 'We Are Accountable'
News In fact, leaders of the open-source community have acted responsibly and swiftly to end the DDoS attacks -- just as we continue to act swiftly to address IP-contamination issues when they are aired in a clear and responsible manner.
[September 11, 2003, 11:30]
Lycos Anti-spam Site Hit By Hackers
News The Web site is currently inaccessible and could also be the victim of a DDoS attack. Lycos on Tuesday kicked off its "make love not spam" campaign by offering users a screensaver that helps to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on...
[December 1, 2004, 8:05]
Bagle Uses Outlook Flaw To Speed Replication
News There are hundreds of different commands ranging from various types of DDoS attacks to stealing everything from the address book to deleting files and finding new hosts to infect. Mikko Hyppönen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure, told...
[March 18, 2004, 11:55]
Lycos Denies Attack On Zombie Army
News Lycos launched its 'make love not spam' campaign, which offers users a screensaver that helps to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on spammers' Web sites, on Monday. Your IP address and request have been logged and will be...
[December 1, 2004, 12:50]
Symbiot Launches DDoS Counter-strike Tool
Talkback The only way that this would work is to use a parser similar to that used by abuse services such as SpamCop to identifying the originating IP address (avoiding forged lines added by the virus). This could only be reported to the ISP for the IP...
[April 2, 2004, 7:12]
Symbiot Launches DDoS Counter-strike Tool
Talkback The attacker will spoof the IP address and cause the counter attack to hit the "victim", which could result in a civil lawsuit against the counter-attacker (should the damage exceed $5,000 USD). Launching a counter-attack no matter how justified is...
[March 23, 2004, 16:56]
