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RSS attack numbersSelective Alerts for Runtime Protection of Distributed Systems
White Paper These weaknesses are frequently exploited by the attackers to avoid or to delay attack detection. In order to improve the efficacy of attack detection and reduce the amount of false positives, the paper... [11 Nov 2009]
WPA2 Security: Choosing the Right WLAN Authentication Method for Homes and Enterprises
White Paper But the only way an executive is likely to lose their job over a wireless network is if they end up like the folks at The TJX Companies, who saw millions of credit card numbers stolen from an attack that... [03 Nov 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... [02 Oct 2009]
Efficient Modeling & Simulation of Biological Warfare Using Innovative Design of Experiments Methods
White Paper The analysis is based on a re-evaluation of data for all 648 possible combinations of settings of six variables in a BW attack case matrix completed for the military. The methods illustrated are applicable to almost any... [16 Sep 2009]
How Not to Look Like a Phish: Tips to Help Your Organization Minimize False Positives
White Paper Businesses absorb more than 90 percent of phishing attack costs as consumers lose faith in Internet-based communication. Phishing is the criminal act of posing as a legitimate business via digital communications to... [15 Aug 2009]
SSAC Advisory on Registrar Impersonation Phishing Attacks
White Paper This paper describes a form of phishing attack that targets domain name registrants. The attacker impersonates a domain name registrar and sends an expected or anticipated correspondence to a registrar's customer (a... [01 Jul 2009]
Cooperative Attack and Defense in Distributed Networks
White Paper The opportunities and challenges presented by cooperation extend to attack and defense in distributed networks. Wireless sensor networks are assembled from large numbers of interchangeable, low-cost... [30 Jun 2009]
Cross-border policing to take down digital crims
News The FBI's big break came when DarkMarket got hit by a denial-of-service attack launched by a rival online site. We're not far behind," says Mularski, who spent a couple of years infiltrating a crime network that offered... [23 Apr 2009]
Microsoft puts $250,000 bounty on worm-creator's head
News Microsoft said it is offering the reward because the worm constitutes a "criminal attack". Participants include: AOL, Arbor Networks, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann),... [16 Feb 2009]
How CIOs learned to stop worrying and love the iPhone
News But the iPhone is making a guerrilla attack on the business world, brought into the corporate world by influential executives, CIOs rethinking their approach to deploying technology, and younger workers who move... [14 Nov 2008]
UK at risk from repeat of US hack attack?
News They are accused of stealing more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers before selling the information, with one of the victims TJX Corporation, owner of clothing retailer TK Maxx, being targeted by hackers who... [06 Aug 2008]
Cotton Traders' site hacked: Thousands of details stolen
News Cotton Traders warned that other major retailers would be vulnerable to the same attack saying its website has always met "leading security standards". The company claims it notified its customers within days of it... [11 Jun 2008]
Distinguishing False From True Alerts in Snort by Data Mining Patterns of Alerts
White Paper In addition, it usually only warns of a potential attack without stating what kind of attack it might be. The Snort network intrusion detection system is well known for triggering large... [21 May 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment In April 2007 Estonia, the former Soviet Baltic republic was paralysed by an unprecedented online attack from networks in Russia. Estonian MP Silver Meikar, a member of the country's defence committee, will be describing... [27 Feb 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. The main idea of the SNF scheme is to restrict... [20 Dec 2007]
