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RSS attack ddosGambling site brought to its knees by 'unstoppable' botnet
News Gala Coral ecommerce's gambling sites were taken down for almost 30 minutes by the next generation 10Gb distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, delegates at the e-crime congress in London were told... [06 Mar 2008]
Tories: Time to wage war on cyber crime
News D is for DDoS Speaking at the e-crime congress in London he mounted a stinging attack on the government's approach to e-crime, in which he called the decision to absorb the National High Tech Crime Unit... [06 Mar 2008]
Untraceable Email Cluster Bombs: On Agent-Based Distributed Denial of Service
White Paper What differentiates the attack this paper described from other, already known forms of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks is that an attacker does not need to infiltrate the network in any... [21 Feb 2008]
Europe dishing out more spam than US
News D is for DDoS Storm is a network of compromised computers with sophisticated attack and defence mechanisms, including "fast-flux" command and control servers, which frequently change location. Security... [07 Feb 2008]
Web 2.0 security risks being ignored
News D is for DDoS Tom Rashke, senior analyst at Forrester, said 25 per cent of US CIOs in a recent survey admitted adoption of web 2.0 tools would be a priority in 2008, even though the strategy would potentially increase... [31 Jan 2008]
Cyber-extortion on the rise - but targets the 'fringe'
News D is for DDoS Schneier wrote in a blog post that the security company he founded, Counterpane, has seen proof of attack capability followed by extortion demands - but said the attacks he had seen had not... [24 Jan 2008]
High-Speed Router Filter for Blocking TCP Flooding Under DDoS Attack
White Paper This paper presents a hardware solution that can reliably block most of the malicious TCP traffic at the edge routers while passing the legitimate TCP traffic during the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)... [15 Jan 2008]
CPS hack attack guidelines: 'Confused'
News D is for DDoS The CMA amendments criminalise the production, distribution and use of software for malicious attack. Click on the links below to find out more. A is for Antivirus B is for Botnets C is for... [04 Jan 2008]
Victim-Assisted Mitigation Technique for TCP-Based Reflector DDoS Attacks
White Paper The proposed scheme, called SYN number based filtering (SNF), takes into account the TCP's connection establishment behavior and the inherent features of the attack itself. This paper develops the concept of... [20 Dec 2007]
Bot attacks target those looking for romance
News D is for DDoS Robot chatters are just one type of social-engineering attack that uses trickery rather than a software flaw to access victim's valuable information. A program that can mimic online... [10 Dec 2007]
Detecting Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Using Source IP Address Monitoring
White Paper 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. Unlike previous proposals for bandwidth... [06 Dec 2007]
Protection From Distributed Denial of Service Attack Using History-Based IP Filtering
White Paper This paper introduces a practical scheme to defend against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks based on IP source address filtering. Unlike other proposals to defend against DDoS attacks, the... [06 Dec 2007]
Phishers snare Salesforce.com data
News D is for DDoS Salesforce.com is refusing to reveal details of a security breach caused when one of its employees surrendered their password in a phishing attack against the company. Details of... [08 Nov 2007]
TCP Flow Analysis for Defense Against Shrew DDoS Attacks
White Paper The shrew or RoS attacks are low-rate DDoS attacks that degrade the QoS to end systems slowly but not to deny the services completely. These attacks are more difficult to detect than the flooding type of... [31 Oct 2007]
Trojan targets companies' top brass
News D is for DDoS F-Secure security expert Patrik Runald recently postulated that the perfect attack would be a zero-day attack using a rootkit-cloaked Trojan sent to an HR manager who, due... [26 Sep 2007]
