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- Analyzing Interaction Between Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks and Threats
- Denial of Service DoS attacks constitutes one of the major threats and among the hardest security problems in today's internet. Of particular concern are Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks, whose impact can be proportionally severe. With little or no advance warning, a DDoS attack can easily exhaust the computing...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, MedwellJournals, Denial Of Service Attack, Security
- White papers 2009-01-01
- A Taxonomy for Denial of Service Attacks in Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems
- Denial of Service DoS attacks continues to affect the availability of critical systems on the Internet. The existing DoS problem is enough to merit significant research dedicated to analyzing and classifying DoS attacks in the Internet context. However, no such research exists for DoS attacks in the domain of Content-based...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Denial Of Service Attack, Security
- White papers 2007-06-22
- dFence: Transparent Network-Based Denial of Service Mitigation
- Denial of Service DoS attacks are a growing threat to the availability of Internet services. The paper presents dFence, a novel network-based defense system for mitigating DoS attacks. The main thesis of dFence is complete transparency to the existing Internet infrastructure with no software modifications at either routers, or the...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Network, dFence, Denial Of Service Attack, Security
- White papers 2007-02-20
- Denial of Service/Distributed Denial of Service
- The Internet has become an indispensable business tool and its availability is often taken for granted. Organisations are increasingly dependent on the Internet through the adoption of email communications and interactive web-based services. However, with dependence comes weakness; the sudden and unexpected loss of Internet access and system function carries...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Denial Of Service Attack, Internet, E-mail, Security, Online Communications
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Defending Government Network Infrastructure Against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
- Denial of Service DoS attacks are a class of network security threat whereby one or more attackers target network resources and servers to deny service to legitimate users. Increasingly, such attacks come from multiple, physically and network-topologically separated locations - a variation dubbed "Distributed" DoS attacks or DDoS attacks -...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Attacker, Network Infrastructure, Network, Government, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Cs3, Denial Of Service Attack, Security, Networking
- White papers 2005-02-18
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- Windows 7 security default worries experts
- How many Windows 7 does it take...How many dribble articles about Windows 7 canthere be in one week.I heard Windows 7 is now helping the economy andit has changed global warming to global cooling.So the polar bears are now SAFE!!! Way to go Windows 7 it is like the messiah...
- Tags: Operating systems, Ubunutu, Microsoft Windows 7, security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Win7
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Adobe has the iPhone surrounded with Flash, but security headaches loom
- Flash 9 is already availableThe web browser is called SkyFire and Flash on it works very nicely.RE: Adobe has the iPhone surrounded with Flash, but security headaches loomI'll try not to do my banking on my cell phone.Problem solved!RE: Adobe has the iPhone surrounded with Flash, but security headaches loomWhat...
- Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Flash 9, Apple iPhone, Flash Lite, smart phone, security headach, monoculture, Adobe Systems Inc., security
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- The best VoIP solution is ...
- What about hosted?Wondering if you guys would be willing to discuss the most obvious omission... hosted. It's like choosing which car to buy when its cheaper to take a limo.RE: The best VoIP solution is ...Your article was only comprehensive if you consider just the IP-PBX and desktop telephone;...
- Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Fax, Zultys, Voice Mail, VoIP Solution, AC power, SIP, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- 'Anonymous' group attempts DDoS attack against Australian government
- Anonymous has been know for years to be online terroristThe Anonymous group to me is a online terrorist organization, spamming, bullying, and hacking websites at any given time. Their acts are so random that it is hard to take many of their causes seriously. Sad to see...
- Tags: SECURITY, Australian Government, distributed denial of service
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- 'Anonymous' group attempts DDoS attack against Australian government
- Following a threat posted on YouTube a month ago, the the well known malicious pattern of the "Anonymous group" failed to materialize earlier today when the group attempted to launch a distributed denial of service DDoS attack against the web sites of Australia's Prime Minister and the Australian Communications and...
- Tags: Government, Crowdsourcing, Distributed Denial Of Service, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- Microsoft confirms SMB2 vulnerability, warns of code execution risk
- Feel free to delete this Ryan.ThanksIsn't it about time we stop playing nice andfind these people who create such an endless stream of blank and do a bit of Vlad the Impaler on them? Catch em... give them a fair trial (I want to be certain we publicly impale...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., SMB2, Microsoft Windows Vista, vulnerability, beta
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Apple drops (another) Mac OS X security patch
- Less than a week after fixing 19 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities, Apple is on the patch treadmill again. The company released Security Update 2009-004 to fix a solitary BIND vulnerability that could lead to denial of service attacks. Apple warns: A...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, BIND, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Pushback on cloud computing: next year, 'Intelligent Fog'?
- ma.gnoliaI recently wrote a blog at TR on ma.gnolia, the cloud based web bookmarking service. It is clear that this cloud based business model did not do their due dilligence in backup and DR recovery planning, and when their DB imploded, it took valuable user data with it. The basic...
- Tags: Virtualization, Intelligent Fog, cloud computing, Pushback
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- Twitter attack: Bots may have been hardest hit
- To read the coverage of yesterday's Denial-of-Service attack on Twitter, you'd think it was the end of the online world. But to put things in perspective as it relates to Twitter and the number of people who are using the service - and hit hardest by the outage - consider...
- Tags: Robot, Bot, Twitter, Attack, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- After Twitter attack, Facebook investigates potential foul play
- After Twitter attack, Facebook investigates potential foul playI think you are rightHow embarrassing for FB and Livejournal. Just trying to absorb Twitter users who cannot post to Twitter brings them down! Twttier Denial of Service CARTOONSort of feels like your hometown is under terrorist attack. Check out my...
- Tags: Twitter, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2009-08-06
- Facebook and Twitter down: Social networking meltdown
- Updated: 22:44 BST. Twitter came under a co-ordinated denial-of-service DOS attack earlier on today which left the site paralysed for a good hour or so. At roughly 7am PST the site was attacked in a co-ordinated fashion, and the entire network was down for at least 30...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, Twitter, Attack, Social Networking, Security, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- After Twitter attack, Facebook investigates potential foul play
- Early this morning it was reported that Twitter had experienced at distributed denial of service DDoS attack that took the site offline for a few hours service has since been restored. During the time rumors floated that Facebook had suffered a similar attack due to slowness in service. ...
- Tags: Facebook, Distributed Denial Of Service, Twitter, Attack, Security, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- Twitter knocked offline by DDoS attack; Koobface returns with a twist
- Popular microblogging service Twitter was knocked offline for an extended period this morning by what appears to be a massive distributed denial-of-service attacks. Twitter confirmed the outage was linked to malicious attackers in a brief status message posted around 11:00 a.m EST. We are...
- Tags: Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- US cyberwarriors a reluctant crew
- US cyberwarriors a reluctant crewRelated problemThere's a related problem ... once they start using [b][i]any[/i][/b] offensive cyberwarfare, anyone could do anything anywhere and blame it on the U.S.Say, for instance, individual Israelis started hacking Iranian computers or vice versa, or Taliban sympathizers started attacking Pakistani systems or Indian systems. ...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, reluctant crew, attack, cyberattack
- Discussion threads 2009-08-02
- Using NetFlow Auditor to Assist in Identifying Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks and Other Network Behavior Anomalies
- This Paper covers how Denial of Service Attacks DoS and Distributed Denial of Service Attacks DDos can be identified early to mitigate and attack. The paper will reflect a method to alert when changes occur outside of learnt baselines and how new patterns can be recognized when security analysts have...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Network, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, IdeaData, Security
- White papers 2009-08-01
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