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RSS ddosDistributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks: Evolution, Impact, & Solutions
White Paper Organizations have had to worry not just about DoS attacks, but Distributed DoS attacks (DDoS), and more recently, Distributed Reflector DoS (DRDoS) attacks. As such, other more powerful DDoS variants... [05 Oct 2009]
DDoS: A Threat You Can't Afford to Ignore
White Paper Distributed denial of service, otherwise known as DDoS, refers to a form of attack whereby a number of source IPs simultaneously send an abnormally large number of packets to a particular destination, thereby... [05 Oct 2009]
Q1 2009 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Report
White Paper Contained within the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) report for the first Quarter (Q1) of 2009 are news items regarding noteworthy cyber attacks and botnets, the individuals or organizations responsible for their... [05 Oct 2009]
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks: Latest Motivations and Methods
White Paper A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack aims to intentionally deprive legitimate users of a resource (or service) provided by a system, typically by overloading that system with a flood of data packets from... [05 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. A game-changing Network Auditing technology called NetFlow Auditor... [02 Oct 2009]
A Principle of a Data Synthesizer for Performance Test of Anti-DDOS Flood Attacks
White Paper Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDOS) flood attacks remain a big issue in network security. Real events of DDOS flood attacks show that an attacked site (e.g.server) usually may not be overwhelmed... [02 Oct 2009]
The Early Detection of DDoS Based on the Persistent Increment Feature of the Traffic Volume
White Paper One of the major threats to cyber security is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. This paper proposes a new algorithm based on the persistent increment tendency of DDoS traffic. The scheme can... [02 Oct 2009]
DDoS Protection Service: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
White Paper Since the early days of the Internet, "Denial-of-service" (DoS) attacks have been a fact of life. The goal of these attacks is to restrict on a grand scale the availability of certain online systems and/or services or to deny service... [02 Oct 2009]
Rule-Based Defense Mechanism Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Paper Since the number of damage cases resulting from Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks has recently been increasing, the need for agile detection and appropriate response mechanisms against DDoS... [02 Oct 2009]
Was Twitter, Facebook denial-of-service the result of attack on a single account?
News In the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the sites, computers that have been compromised by viruses or other malware are instructed by the attacker's computer to visit the specific websites all at the same... [07 Aug 2009]
Twitter blackout confirmed as denial-of-service attack
News Twitter was inaccessible for several hours on Thursday, followed by a period of slowness and sporadic timeouts, and more outright downtime. The microblogging site is blaming an "ongoing" denial-of-service (DoS) attack but has not said... [06 Aug 2009]
Choosing the Right Email Security Deployment
White Paper Today's email-borne threats consist of viruses, spam, false positives, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, spyware, phishing (fraud), regulatory compliance violations, data loss and more. Enterprises of all... [31 Jul 2009]
Denial of Service Attacks and the Emergence of Intrusion Prevention Systems
White Paper Since 2000, Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been prevalent across the internet. In an age of political unrest and war, the internet is being used as a source of constant... [14 Jul 2009]
Data moving to the cloud? Cybercrime will follow
News Parella declined to comment on the most recent DDOS attacks that have targeted websites in the US and South Korea since the 4 July weekend. As data moves to the cloud, attackers and thieves will follow, a US federal... [13 Jul 2009]
A Link Signature Based DDoS Attacker Tracing Algorithm Under IPv6
White Paper To some special attacks, especially DDoS attacks, IPSec appears relatively weak, because IPSec can only defend against DDoS attacks that spoof their source addresses. In cases where attackers launch... [01 Jul 2009]
