internet denial-of-service
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... [05 Oct 2009]
Defending Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks With Weight-Fair Router Throttling
White Paper A high profile internet server is always a target of denial-of-service attacks. This paper proposes a novel technique for protecting an... [02 Oct 2009]
Denial of Service Attacks in Networks With Tiny Buffers
White Paper However, reducing buffer sizes might pose new security risks: it is much easier to fill up tiny buffers, and thus organizing Denial of Service (DoS) attacks seems easier in a network... [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. Usually, in this type... [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. AGD said it had advised agencies likely to... [09 Sep 2009]
Microsoft IIS flaw being exploited in attacks
News According to the advisory, the vulnerability could let somebody run arbitrary code on a server using FTP on IIS 5.0 and conduct a denial-of-service attack using FTP on IIS 5.1, 6.0, and... [07 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can tech end bloody wars?
Comment Individuals, groups and nations can attack each other using denial-of-service attacks and/or control-and-command usurping with bot technology. It starts with artificial intelligence... [28 Aug 2009]
Botnet finds a home on Twitter
News Security on Twitter is front and centre right now, as the microblogging site was completely downed by a distributed denial-of-service attack last week that was targeting a Georgian... [17 Aug 2009]
Was Twitter, Facebook denial-of-service the result of attack on a single account?
News A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter... [07 Aug 2009]
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday to fix five critical holes
News Four additional vulnerabilities, rated "important", affect Windows and Windows .NET Framework and could allow an attacker to remotely execute code, launch a denial-of-service attack or... [07 Aug 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... [14 Jul 2009]
The Internet: Where Did IT All Go Wrong?
White Paper It's hard to imagine life today without all of problems that the Internet has introduced: phishing attacks, cyber-bullying, data theft on a scale never before imagined, spam, distributed... [14 Jul 2009]
Detect SYN Flooding Attack in Edge Routers
White Paper Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks pose a serious threat to Internet security. This paper proposes a novel defense mechanism that makes use of... [01 Jul 2009]
BotMiner: Clustering Analysis of Network Traffic for Protocol- and Structure-Independent Botnet Detection
White Paper Botnets are now the key platform for many Internet attacks, such as spam, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS), identity theft, and phishing. Most of... [30 Jun 2009]
Live Baiting for Service-Level DoS Attackers
White Paper Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks remain a challenging problem in the Internet. Furthermore, in order to employ massive attack power, the attacker usually launches a... [30 Jun 2009]
Keep updated for stories matching internet denial-of-service via RSS
