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Australian cops investigate 'anonymous' cyber attack threat
News The group claims its planned attack is a protest against the Federal Government's highly contentious mandatory ISP filtering proposal. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has been called in to... [09 Sep 2009]
Analysis of a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
White Paper In order to evaluate the effectiveness of this technique, they have analyzed the packet traffic data collected at the routers in two sites: a university department network (16,800,000 packets/hr) and an ISP backbone... [30 Jun 2009]
A Hybrid Approach to Efficient Detection of Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Paper The system is designed as a two-stage architecture incorporating the change-point detection methodology, used for early attack identification, and further spectral profiling, used for confirmation of the... [20 Jun 2009]
Virgin Media to shift 20,000 customers onto Gmail
News In October last year, Virgin Media's email service was knocked out of action for two days by a suspected spam attack on the ISP's email supplier, Tucows. According to the internet... [15 Apr 2009]
A Framework for Classifying Denial of Service Attacks
White Paper Launching a Denial of Service (DoS) attack is trivial, but detection and response is a painfully slow and often a manual process. Although headers are easily forged, the paper shows that characteristics... [14 Oct 2008]
Anti-Phishing Best Practices for ISPs and Mailbox Providers
White Paper Phishing1 is a newer, related attack but one that results in severe privacy and security violations. Unfortunately, there is a lack of public consensus as to how an ISP should best attempt this. Phishing... [31 May 2008]
DIADEM Firewall: Web Server Overload Attack Detection and Response
White Paper This paper presents the DIADEM Firewall architecture that allows an ISP to protect its customers from being the target of a DDoS attack. Furthermore, the use-case of the web server overload... [23 Apr 2008]
Security experts criticise Phorm
News These request bounce-backs would magnify any denial-of-service attack, according to Clayton, and could also create incompatibilities with browser-security measures. While Phorm could always just switch... [18 Apr 2008]
Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods
News Also in the statement, Phorm's chief executive, Kent Ertugrul, pointed out that FIPR had campaigned against Ripa when it was drawn up eight years ago but was now using it to attack Phorm. Intercepting traffic for... [11 Apr 2008]
Police e-crime funding set for green light?
News If the PCEU pieced together a larger, nationwide attack from regional incidents it could either investigate this itself or nominate a local force to lead the investigation. It will be police officers working in... [12 Mar 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]
DoS attack could shut down the net
News The company claimed that a successful denial of service (DoS) attack against VeriSign could bring down the internet. Tim Pickett, a former technical security analyst at AOL, said ISPs should monitor... [26 Sep 2007]
Why DDos attack didn't bring down the net
News The distributed denial of service attack on the Domain Name System (DNS) proved the effectiveness of the Anycast load-balancing system, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann)... [12 Mar 2007]
Hackers strike at the heart of the internet
News In 2002, a similar denial of service attack also failed. The attack appears to have focused on the domain name system (DNS), which maps text-based domain names to the actual numeric IP... [07 Feb 2007]
Update: Bulldog ditches home broadband market
News Currently operating as a retail ISP, Bulldog now has, on average, less than 300 customers per unbundled exchange, and prospects for growing this significantly are fading by the day. However, the company has suffered... [08 Jun 2006]
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