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whitepaper A known weakness of Web Services is their vulnerability to Denial of Service attacks exploiting XML processing characteristics. For SOAP security is message oriented, the processing of the security content itself is vulnerable to Denial of Service...
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper Finally, there are denial of service attacks, which can be unique to VoIP equipment. The signaling is also vulnerable to attack, which can include misdirected or counterfeit signaling messages that may be difficult to detect.
[30 Apr 2008]
whitepaper How Proofpoint Dynamic Reputation can provide first line defense against spam, directory harvest attacks, denial of service attacks and other email-borne threats while delivering substantial infrastructure savings.
[07 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Cost-effective ways to eliminate directory harvest attacks (DHA), denial of service (DoS) attacks, and other types of invalid e-mail—often making up over 90 percent of incoming traffic Practical ways to scan e-mail and attachment content, enforce e...
[12 Dec 2007]
News Spam, phishing and denial of service could all soon be threatening VoIP services, and businesses need to take steps now to ward off the danger. Other threats could be toll fraud, where premium rate calls are made to numbers that benefit hackers (by...
[13 Nov 2006]
News Confusion had arisen over whether denial of service attacks were covered in the original CMA in the case of a teenager originally cleared in 2005 of crashing the email server of his former employer by overwhelming it with an 'email bomb...
[10 Nov 2006]
News The CMA is now seen as insufficient to combat the rise of cyber crimes such as denial of service attacks. Lennon had originally been cleared of the charges in November 2005, after another judge ruled it wasn't an offence to overwhelm an email...
[24 Aug 2006]
News After a distributed denial of service attack at its service provider, Six Apart, Blue Security announced it would cease its anti-spam activities. Spammers typically use networks of zombies, or compromised PCs used without their owners' knowledge...
[12 Jun 2006]
News They can also be used to send out a flood of data to bring down a system in a denial of service attack. Botnets are used to send out email messages for spam and phishing attacks. Malicious makers of bots are finding big is not always better when it...
[17 Nov 2005]
News The report stated: "These sites are often targets for DoS (Denial of Service) extortion attacks such as, 'Transfer $5,000 into this Swiss bank account and we will stop bombarding your site'. Denial of service attacks work by inundating a site with...
[25 Oct 2005]
whitepaper The paper analyzes the 4-Way Handshake protocol using a finite-state verification tool and finds a Denial-of-Service attack. The attack involves forging initial messages from the authenticator to the supplicant to produce inconsistent keys in peers.
[06 Oct 2005]
News A phone that had been activated fraudulently was disabled, and the teen retaliated with a denial of service attack on the company's website when it refused to reactivate the phone. Having gained access to T-Mobile USA's systems, the teen found...
[15 Sep 2005]
Round-Up In July 2003, Russia's deputy communications minister, Andrei Korotkov, became so incensed about the volumes of spam he was receiving from Kushnir's Center for American English he instigated a denial of service attack against the school's phone...
[29 Jul 2005]
News In July 2003, Russia's deputy communications minister, Andrei Korotkov, became so incensed about the volumes of spam he was receiving he instigated a denial of service attack against the school's phone system.
[26 Jul 2005]
News The flaw, which opens the IP phone service up to denial-of-service attacks, was reported by the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre, a security research group based in the UK. According to the advisory, the vulnerability is caused...
[25 May 2005]
News This network would provide not only a megaphone to distribute messages of hate but a platform for future spam, worm and denial of service attacks," said Chasin. Another variant of the Sober virus, which spreads right-wing messages in German and...
[16 May 2005]
News The UK's National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) earlier this week published details of this denial-of-service vulnerability, which affects some routers, firewalls and voice over IP (VoIP) phones.
[15 Apr 2005]
whitepaper It is made up of spam, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHA), email Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, malformed SMTP packets, invalid recipient addresses, and other requests and communications unrelated to the delivery of valid email messages.
[25 Mar 2005]
News Lycos on Tuesday kicked off its "make love not spam" campaign by offering users a screensaver that helps to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on spammers' websites. The company said the screensaver uses the idle processing power...
[01 Dec 2004]
News Lycos is offering its customers a screensaver that helps to launch denial-of-service attacks on spammers' websites - a tactic more commonly associated with hackers or the spammers themselves who abuse networks of compromised machines to send large...
[30 Nov 2004]
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