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Web attacks: Are ISPs doing enough?
News The result is a flood of email to providers that is as debilitating as the Denial of Service attacks that hit the Web on 7 to 9 February. It's been two months (since I notified my provider of three potential attacks)," wrote a California-based Web...
[February 22, 2000, 9:13]
Web attacks? The ISPs strike back!
News Eight Internet service providers (ISPs) have teamed up with Internet security firm ICSA.net to prevent more Denial of Service attacks like the ones that downed several major Web sites earlier this month.
[February 24, 2000, 9:03]
Experts: Web attacks not over yet
News Even as two more major Web sites suffered outages, security experts issued a chilling warning: The attacks could continue into Thursday. Steve Bellovin, network security research fellow for AT&T Labs, expects more attacks to hit other sites...
[February 10, 2000, 8:45]
Web bookmakers tool up against blackmail hack attacks
News DDoS attacks are used maliciously to force Web servers offline by flooding them with data traffic. Betfair is reluctant to discuss the steps it has taken to bolster its IT security, but did say that protection from DDoS attacks is a top priority.
[February 23, 2004, 14:35]
Fur protesters launch Web attacks
News Animal rights protesters launched denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on Monday against seven organisations that work in the fur trade. A spokeswoman at Maison de Bonneterie confirmed that the attacks were happening, but declined to comment on the matter.
[February 14, 2005, 16:10]
SOAP Web Services Attacks
White Papers This white paper discusses various types of attacks based on the SOAP implementation of Web services over HTTP and describes how one can shield the applications from these assaults. The World Wide Web is being used increasingly for application-to...
[April 1, 2009, 4:15]
Symantec Reports Malicious Web Attacks Are on the Rise
White Papers In addition, by leveraging site-specific vulnerabilities hackers are able to launch multi-stage attacks that can propagate very quickly among users. Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report shows that hackers are increasingly compromising...
[May 29, 2009, 1:19]
Teenager jailed for Web attacks
News Jasmine Singh, who was sentenced last week, pleaded guilty earlier this year to two counts of computer theft after causing DDoS attacks against Web sites selling sports jerseys and other sporting goods.
[August 17, 2005, 16:55]
'Gumblar' web attacks spreading quickly
News The attacks, collectively referred to as 'Gumblar' by ScanSafe and 'Troj/JSRedir-R' by Sophos, grew 188 percent over the course of a week, ScanSafe said on Thursday. The attacks' malicious payload has, however, continued to be delivered from a...
[May 19, 2009, 11:14]
'Zombie attacks': Web crackdown widens
News This month's rash of "zombie attacks" on popular Web sites is already resulting in greater cooperation between law-enforcement agencies and the Internet industry, computer security experts said Friday.
[February 21, 2000, 9:06]
Targeted Web attacks review
Reviews Forget the notion of a lone script kiddie sitting at a computer, launching wide-scale attacks on random computers around the world. According to a June 16 2005 briefing by the NISCC (National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre, in the...
[July 13, 2005, 8:30]
Protecting Web Services From DoS Attacks by SOAP Message Validation
White Papers This paper presents a system for protecting Web Services from Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. DoS attacks often rely on misformed and/or overly long messages that engage a server in resource-consuming computations.
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Dynamic Pharming Attacks and Locked Same-Origin Policies for Web Browsers
White Papers To counter dynamic pharming attacks, the paper proposes two locked same-origin policies for web browsers. This paper describes a new attack against web authentication, which the paper calls dynamic pharming.
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Protecting Web Servers From Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
White Papers Recently many prominent web sites face so called Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS). This paper categorizes different forms of attacks and gives an overview over the most common DDoS tools. Furthermore they present a solution based on...
[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). Identifying these characteristics allows a formulation...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Teenager jailed for Web attacks
Talkback Understandable why he acted out - if my mom named me "Jasmine" and I was guy, I'd be acting out, too.
[August 18, 2005, 14:15]
Fur protesters launch Web attacks
Talkback Good! Those who profit from torture and murder of innocent animals for fur, food, and vivisection deserve this and more. One day these vile industries will be a memory of past evils (right up there with Hitler and slave traders) but for today they...
[February 14, 2005, 19:50]
Teenager jailed for Web attacks
Talkback Sending a 17 year old boy to prison for a non-violent crime is sick. But the USA with 1/4 of the world's prison population is obviously a very sick society, piss-poor in solutions: war and prison are its answer to everything.
[August 18, 2005, 12:27]
Fur protesters launch Web attacks
Talkback It's kind of interesting that most folks talk about removing the temptation (Coca-Cola, MickeyD's, etc) which affects everyone, rathre than using their own self-discipline to stay away from these "evils" and let others make up their own minds.
[February 16, 2005, 16:45]
