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RSS attackPassword Interception in a SSL/TLS Channel
White Paper This attack was not possible against SSL/TLS due to both unavailability of the side channel (errors are encrypted) and premature abortion of the session in case of errors. This paper extends the attack... [04 Oct 2009]
Laying the IT Security Foundation - Corralling Conficker and Other Threats in an Evolved Environment
White Paper The traditional security approach addresses each individual attack as it crops up through a detect and blocking schema. However in today's ever-changing IT environment, sophisticated threats such as Conficker worm... [02 Oct 2009]
Achieving NERC Cyber Security Standards Compliance with Lumension® Solutions
White Paper Automate vulnerability management to minimize the attack surface The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is a non-profit corporation chartered to ensure that the bulk electric system in North America... [02 Oct 2009]
Detecting Pulsing Denial-of-Service Attacks With Nondeterministic Attack Intervals
White Paper This paper addresses the important problem of detecting Pulsing Denial of Service (PDoS) attacks which send a sequence of attack pulses to reduce TCP throughput. In particular, the attack model admits... [02 Oct 2009]
A Case Study: Using Architectural Features to Improve Sophisticated Denial-of-Service Attack Detections
White Paper Application features such as port numbers are used by Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs) to detect attacks coming from networks. System calls and the operating system related information are used by Host-based Intrusion... [02 Oct 2009]
Alcatel-Lucent Attack Containment: Automated Attack Containment in Multi-Vendor Networks Using Alcatel-Lucent's OmniVista 2770 Quarantine Manager
White Paper Keeping this information secure and free from attack and compromise as it passes between and over these devices remains a primary concern for one and ones business. Business communications today are dynamic and mobile... [02 Oct 2009]
Rule-Based Defense Mechanism Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Paper The latest DDoS attack has the property of swift propagation speed and various attack patterns. Since the number of damage cases resulting from Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks has recently... [02 Oct 2009]
Wireless Intrusion Prevention Systems
White Paper While an attacker needs physical access to a wired network in order to launch an attack, a wireless network allows anyone within its range to passively monitor the traffic or even start an attack. The... [02 Oct 2009]
Application-Specific Attacks: Leveraging the ActionScript Virtual Machine
White Paper Learning how this attack works will help refine countermeasures to protect this and other similar vulnerabilities. Memory corruption vulnerabilities are now being exploited using application specific attacks, like the... [02 Oct 2009]
Using NetFlow Auditor to Assist in Identifying Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks and Other Network Behavior Anomalies
White Paper 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... [02 Oct 2009]
Understanding Anti-Malware Research and Response at Microsoft: An Introduction to the Malware Protection Center
White Paper The use of social engineering continues to rise as an attack method, and threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their attempts to infect a system. Viruses, Trojans, and other malicious software, as well as... [02 Oct 2009]
The Early Detection of DDoS Based on the Persistent Increment Feature of the Traffic Volume
White Paper The scheme can detect a DDoS attack in its early stages when the attacking packet's attribute value has no distinct features. One of the major threats to cyber security is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. [02 Oct 2009]
A Principle of a Data Synthesizer for Performance Test of Anti-DDOS Flood Attacks
White Paper Real events of DDOS flood attacks show that an attacked site (e.g.server) usually may not be overwhelmed immediately at the moment attack packets arrive at that site but sometime late. Distributed Denial-Of-Service... [02 Oct 2009]
DDoS Protection Service: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
White Paper Usually, in this type of attack, an attempt is made to cause the attacked systems to crash by exploiting vulnerabilities in operating systems, programs and services or basic design flaws in the network protocols in use... [02 Oct 2009]
WebDefend and the OWASP Top Ten
White Paper This webcast provides a reference guide outlining how WebDefend's collaborative attack detection can help address each of top ten issues reported by OWASP. With all the web application attacks and vulnerabilities... [02 Oct 2009]
