attack compromise
RSS attack compromiseBlue Versus Red: Towards a Model of Distributed Security Attacks
White Paper Attackers benefit from the successful compromise of target systems, however, may suffer penalties for increased attack activities. Defenders weigh the force of an attack against the cost... [11 Nov 2009]
Stay One Step Ahead With Comodo 2048-Bit Certificates
White Paper If one is still using a 1024-bit certificate, one may soon be vulnerable to a "Brute-Force Attack". An exponential trend in computer processing power has resulted in the ability for criminals to... [06 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... [02 Oct 2009]
Top 10 Threats to SME Data Security
White Paper Because subscribers are time-constrained, over-worked IT professionals, it alerted only when it knows an attack is not merely feasible, but likely. The result: this paper lists the top 10 most common vectors of data... [02 Sep 2009]
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report
White Paper With a focus on "Botnets" the paper describes the various parties involved in creating and distributing malware and potentially unwanted software, explaining key techniques and technologies used to attack and... [01 Jul 2009]
Obama: 'We are underprepared for cyber attack'
News This department will be charged with encouraging research on new technologies that can detect these threats in time to prevent an attack. The final report represents a political compromise. The... [01 Jun 2009]
Cyber Criminality - Is Your Worst Nightmare Coming True?
White Paper Attack methods are getting more sophisticated every day and organizations of all sizes are potential targets. In order to compromise a website or a network, cyber criminals, or the tools they are using,... [01 May 2009]
Why you should hack your own systems
Comment Penetration tests allow organisations to set up social engineering attacks, garnering information such as email addresses from vulnerable applications and using wizards and templates to do things such as create an email, associate it... [22 Apr 2009]
Denial of Service Attacks and Challenges in Broadband Wireless Networks
White Paper Amongst the various security risks, Denial of Service (DoS) attack is the most severe security threat, as DoS can compromise the availability and integrity of broadband wireless network. This paper... [15 Apr 2009]
Malicious Websites
White Paper 2005 saw the beginning of a movement towards an entirely new type of attack method. With personal firewalls loaded onto many systems, as well as other security features enabled, the "inbound attack"... [18 Mar 2009]
Denial of Service or Denial of Security?: How Attacks on Reliability Can Compromise Anonymity
White Paper The paper shows that Denial of Service (DoS) lowers anonymity as messages need to get retransmitted to be delivered, presenting more opportunities for attack. This paper considers the effect attackers who disrupt... [22 Oct 2008]
Denial-of-Service & Distributed Denial-of-Service on the Internet
White Paper A Denial-of-Service attack is a very serious threat to the infrastructure of the Internet, as well as its users. The focus of this paper is on attacks that compromise the availability of systems.... [14 Oct 2008]
Design and Development of Proactive Models for Mitigating Denial-of-Service and Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Paper Generally, attackers launch Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks by directing a massive number of attack sources to send useless traffic to the victim. The victim's services are disrupted when its host or network... [14 Oct 2008]
World Bank hit by cyber intrusion epidemic?
News Up to 40 servers have been penetrated in a series of attacks, according to Fox News, including one attack on a server that held contract-procurement data. Every firm with critical data should be giving its employees... [13 Oct 2008]
Corporations riddled with security holes
News These high risk vulnerabilities are widely known and actively exploited by hackers, leaving many companies susceptible to attack. Some OpenSSL versions are known to contain several vulnerabilities that could allow an... [19 Jun 2008]
