digital attack
RSS digital attackUsing 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]
Australian cops investigate 'anonymous' cyber attack threat
News The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has been called in to investigate a planned denial-of-service attack on Australian government web servers. A spokesperson from the Attorney General's Department (AGD) today said it was... [09 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... [15 Aug 2009]
Web security warnings being ignored - even by the most tech-savvy
News While SSL certificates often expire for benign reasons, an expired certificate can also indicate that the user could be the victim of a man-in-the-middle attack. A domain mismatch, where the URL displayed does not match... [28 Jul 2009]
Award Winning Australian University Chooses 3Com as It Expands Into Dubai Knowledge Village
White Paper Also, the network lacked both Layer 3 Switching and DMZ capabilities necessary to allow unauthorized users onto the network without subjecting the network to the potential for hostile attack. The university is acclaimed... [12 Jun 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 still-to-be-named co-ordinator will oversee a new bureaucracy tasked with... [01 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. The FBI agent whose undercover sting operation led to the dismantling of an international cybercrime ring... [23 Apr 2009]
Geolocation: Knowing Your Enemy
White Paper Knowing where the Web visitors are located is becoming increasingly important for online businesses to allow them to make real-time business decisions to prevent fraud, comply with regulations, manage digital content,... [13 Feb 2009]
Geolocation - Knowing Your Enemy
White Paper Knowing where your Web visitors are located is becoming increasingly important for online businesses to allow them to make real-time business decisions to prevent fraud, comply with regulations, manage digital content,... [11 Feb 2009]
Command Injection in XML Signatures and Encryption
White Paper Unfortunately, the defined transforms have not been rigorously constrained to prevent their use as attack vectors, and denial of service or even arbitrary code execution are probable in implementations that have not... [25 Nov 2008]
Denial of Service Attack Detection Using Extended Analog Computers
White Paper Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, a damaging assault on computer networking infrastructure, have been extensively examined by the digital computing community. However, no work has been done to examine the ability of... [14 Oct 2008]
Design of a DDoS Attack-Resistant Distributed Spam Blocklist
White Paper Digital signatures make widespread network participation possible without compromising data integrity. This paper introduces the high-level design for a novel distributed spam blocklist system based on Peer-to-Peer... [13 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. In an email to CNET News, a representative for Mandiant, a... [13 Oct 2008]
Firefox extension to protect from wireless hacks
News In an attack on the DNS system, someone typing in a legitimate web address could be redirected to a malicious site without knowing it. It also is designed to assure surfers when they visit sites that are safe but which... [27 Aug 2008]
Mobile broadband threatening fixed line?
News But with the rise in popularity of mobile broadband gadgets, the landline is under attack on two fronts. A recent state of the digital nation Ofcom report found UK dongle sales nearly doubled between... [20 Aug 2008]
