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RSS attackSMS flaw leaves iPhone vulnerable to attack
News Apple expects to have a fix later this month for a vulnerability in the iPhone that could allow an attacker to gain control of the device remotely via SMS, a security researcher said on Thursday. An attacker could exploit a weakness in... [03 Jul 2009]
ATM hack talk pulled from security conference
News In his presentation entitled 'Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines', Barnaby Jack was planning to discuss local and remote attack vectors on ATMs and provide a live demonstration of an attack on an... [02 Jul 2009]
IT security training now the 'substantial' task of GCHQ
News As part of the government's Cyber Security Strategy, a Cyber Security Operations Centre is being set up in Cheltenham to co-ordinate UK systems infrastructure defence and attack capabilities. The government is turning... [01 Jul 2009]
A Granularity-Adaptive System for In-Network Attack Detection
White Paper An effective attack mitigation makes the detection of such network hazards close to its sources necessary. They therefore propose to use an in-network attack detection system which can be installed on... [01 Jul 2009]
Detect SYN Flooding Attack in Edge Routers
White Paper Traditional detection methods rely on passively detecting an attacking signature and are inaccurate in the early stages of an attack. Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks pose a serious threat to Internet security. [01 Jul 2009]
A CPU Usage Control Mechanism for Processes With Execution Resource for Mitigating CPU DoS Attack
White Paper In a ubiquitous environment, the hardware resources are limited; thus, an appropriate resource management mechanism is required for guaranteeing its processing activity. However, most Operating Systems (OSs) lack an access control... [01 Jul 2009]
Inside the Malicious World of Blog Comment Spam
White Paper This paper describes the code, behavior and infrastructure of a blog comment spam attack. The particular blog spam attack explained here uses HTTP/javascript obfuscation and redirection to pass the... [01 Jul 2009]
HoneyAnalyzer - Analysis and Extraction of Intrusion Detection Patterns & Signatures Using Honeypot
White Paper A Honeypot is a security resource, which is intended to be attacked and compromised to gain more information about the attacker and his attack techniques. It gives information about attacks and attack... [01 Jul 2009]
Rock Phishing: The Threat and Recommended Countermeasures
White Paper This paper discusses the history of the Rock Phish Gang as well as their attack methodology and how it has evolved. It also review the actions that businesses can take to prevent and defeat an attack by... [01 Jul 2009]
Denial of Service Resilience in Ad Hoc Networks
White Paper Or are there attack and system factors that can lead to devastating effects? The first attack they study, called the JellyFish attack, is targeted against closed-loop flows such as TCP;... [01 Jul 2009]
Tolerating Denial-of-Service Attacks Using Overlay Networks - Impact of Overlay Network Topology
White Paper They provide a general analysis of system dynamics under attack, and study how the speed of attack, speed of defense, and proxy network topology affect these dynamics. Proxy-network based overlays have... [01 Jul 2009]
A Link Signature Based DDoS Attacker Tracing Algorithm Under IPv6
White Paper It can immediately reconstruct the entire attack path after suffering a DDoS attack whether or not the source addresses are spoofed. The ipv6 security architecture, IPSec, plays a positive role in the... [01 Jul 2009]
Spam and the Ongoing Battle for Safe Communications
White Paper Spammers and phishers have been using increasingly sophisticated techniques to attack these forms. These adversaries use Google to locate vulnerable web sites and then use botnets to attack them.... [01 Jul 2009]
Novel Mechanism to Defend DDoS Attacks Caused by Spam
White Paper These days the DDoS attack through spam has increased and disturbed the mail services of various organizations. This paper proposes a novel approach to defend DDoS attack caused by spam mails. Corporate... [01 Jul 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]
