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- D-Guard Anti-DDoS Firewall v4.0 (Windows)
- D-Guard Anti-DDoS Firewall is an accurate protection against DDoS attacks with built-in Intrusion Prevention System. Features protection against SYN, TCP Flooding and other types of DDoS attacks. Stops over 2,000 types of hacker activities, such as Port scan, and SQL injection.
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Distributed Denial Of Service, D-Guard, D-Guard Anti-DDoS Firewall, Intrusion Prevention, Tcp/Ip, Security, Networking
- Software downloads 2009-09-25
- '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
- Reseachers run one million virtual machines to help flight botnet problem
- LateYou are like 2 weeks late to the story.http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/Sandia-Computer-Scientists-Boot-One-Million-Linux-Kernels-as-Virtual-Machines-51891292.htmlAt the risk of starting a flame...war, shouldn't they be running Windows kernels? If they are wanting to mimic a real world botnet scenario then they would need to run Windows. Since 90% or so PC's run Windows and Windows is definitely...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Operating systems, virtual machine, infection, botnet, distributed denial of service, Microsoft Windows, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-08-09
- Twitter knocked offline by DDoS attack; Koobface returns with a twist
- Twitter knocked offline by DDoS attack; Koobface returns with a twistFacebook also having issuesI can't play Mafia Wars what to do now! LOLNo no, they were selling a product that was uncovered as a scam!It was on the news last night. They are getting their stupid people stupid back to...
- Tags: Koobface, Twitter, distributed denial of service
- Discussion threads 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
- 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
- Iranian opposition launches organized cyber attack against pro-Ahmadinejad sites
- Approximately 24 hours ago, the Iranian opposition coordinated an ongoing cyber attack that has successfully managed to disrupt access to major pro-Ahmadinejad Iranian web sites, including the President's homepage which continues returning a "The maximum number of user reached, Server is too busy, please try again later..." message. ...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Web, Server, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Tool, Iran, Attack, Presstv.ir, SupportIran.php, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Q1 2009 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Report
- Contained within the Distributed Denial of Service DDoS report for the first Quarter (Q1) of 2009 are news items regarding noteworthy cyber attacks and botnets, the individuals or organizations responsible for their perpetration, arrests and legal developments stemming from these particular incidents, vulnerabilities and exploits that may enable future Denial...
- Tags: VeriSign Inc., Distributed Denial Of Service, Security
- White papers 2009-05-12
- Mac botnet being used in DDOS attacks
- Mac botnet being used in DDOS attacksYeah he reminds me....Of an Apple fanboy. All fluff no substance. LOOK EVERYONE!!@#@!!! HE MENTIONS ME AGAIN!!@#@!This guy is starting to become my biggest fan! :) Some of you others are having some competition now.Let's wait for Loverock to postsome...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Linux, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, malware, Mac Botnet, software, Apple Macintosh, illicit software, distributed denial of service, Mac-user, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-04-20
- Mac botnet being used in DDOS attacks
- Back in January pirated versions of iWork '09 being shared on P2P networks were discovered to contain a trojan horse called "iWorkServices." The author of the malware did his thing by adding a malicious binary to the trial version of the software package. ZDNet's own Ryan Naraine...
- Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Researcher, Malware, Distributed Denial Of Service, Desktops, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- DDoS attack on UltraDNS affects Amazon.com, SalesForce.com, Petco.com
- Several NeuStar UltraDNS managed DNS service customers, including Amazon.com, SalesForce.com, advertising.com and Petco.com, were knocked offline for several hours yesterday morning by a distributed denial of service attack, reports rival Dynamic Network Services. Neustar confirmed the attack to NetworkWorld with the following statement: "Early...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., DNS, UltraDNS, NeuStar Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Distributed Denial Of Service, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-04-01
- Dynamic and Auto Responsive Solution for Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks Detection in ISP Network
- Denial of Service DoS attacks and more particularly the distributed ones DDoS are one of the latest threat and pose a grave danger to users, organizations and infrastructures of the Internet. Several schemes have been proposed on how to detect some of these attacks, but they suffer from a range...
- Tags: Network, Internet Service Provider, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Security, Internet
- White papers 2009-04-01
- A Link Signature Based DDoS Attacker Tracing Algorithm Under IPv6
- The ipv6 security architecture, IPSec, plays a positive role in the protection of IPv6 networks. To some special attacks, especially DDoS attacks, IPSec appears relatively weak, because IPSec can only defend against DDoS attacks that spoof their source addresses. In cases where attackers launch DDoS attacks with their real identity,...
- Tags: Algorithm, IPv6, Attacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, IPSec, VPNs, Security, Networking
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Measuring Global Denial of Service Attacks
- Cyberattacks as a tool for information warfare are not new and have been popular for well over a decade. Their growing prevalence, however, is a disturbing trend that requires study. Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks are one of the most widely crippling elements of many cyberwarfare campaigns. Designed to...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, CCD COE, Distributed Denial Of Service Attack, Security
- White papers 2009-03-31
- DDoS applications becoming democratized, tools of protest
- In a presentation at SOURCE Boston, Dr. Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks stated that DDoS applications are moving from the domain of trained attackers to tools for the average person to voice a political statement. During his presentation, Nazario covered the major political DDoS events from the...
- Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Tool, Security, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- Russia kinda-sorta owns up to Estonia cyberwar
- Radio Free Europe is reporting that an official from Putin's party has publicly stated that he orchestrated the 2007 DDoS Attacks on Estonia. The information security and military communities have been speculating for the past two years about who were the primary actors behind the 2007 Estonian...
- Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Radio Free Europe, Security, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2009-03-08
- Conficker worm to DDoS legitimate sites in March
- Conficker worm to DDoS legitimate sites in MarchProblem: unsupported Microsoft OS's aren't patched.Microsoft hasn't patched anything older than Win2k. Those systems will be infected for all eternity. (And yes Virginia, some of them will still be on the internet 10 years from now).
- Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Conficker, distributed denial of service
- Discussion threads 2009-03-03
- Conficker worm to DDoS legitimate sites in March
- Among the key innovations of the Conficker worm (W32.Downadup) was the pseudo-random domain generation algorithm used for the generation of dynamic command and control locations in order to make it nearly impossible for researchers and the industry to take them down. However, once the domain registration algorithm was successfully reverse...
- Tags: Domain, Worm, Distributed Denial Of Service, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- Crimeware tracking service hit by a DDoS attack
- Crimeware tracking service hit by a DDoS attackDDos ProtectionYpigsfly ddos proxy service works, can be implemented in minutes and is afforadable at as little as $500
- Tags: distributed denial of service, Crimeware
- Discussion threads 2009-02-17
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