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RSS dos in newsNational Work from Home Day: A blessing or a curse?
News The piece I was editing first thing about the dos and don'ts of job interviews went over without a hitch from my home near the Sussex coast to our sub editor. Overall, everyone was glad not to have to commute in to work. [16 May 2008]
Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'
News Network Box warns that the software firewalls used to protect ATMs are not able to prevent DoS attacks or harvesting of consumer's personal data after the data travels through the bank's network. Security from A to Z [04 Mar 2008]
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. Silva said that although DoS attacks are difficult to trace, there are "a couple of well-known groups in Russia, China and Romania... [26 Sep 2007]
Bugs found in Apple's Safari for Windows
News David Maynor - one of the researchers who controversially claimed to have found security flaws in Apple's AirPort wi-fi driver last year - wrote in his blog on Monday that "an afternoon of idle fuzzing [testing software by throwing random data at... [13 Jun 2007]
Cisco plugs DoS hole
News Cisco Systems has released a security patch to fix vulnerabilities in a number of its products that are at risk of a denial of service (DoS) attack. The security flaws could allow attackers to send a few small packets through the routers to shut... [25 May 2007]
Microsoft settles Iowa antitrust class action
News The qualifying operating systems include: MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT Workstation, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. [15 Feb 2007]
Hackers strike at the heart of the internet
News There are signs hackers attacked key parts of the backbone of the internet yesterday but no damage seems to have been done, experts said. The attack appears to have focused on the domain name system (DNS), which maps text-based domain names to the... [07 Feb 2007]
How to succeed in China, India and beyond
News Businesses that successfully expand into emerging markets exhibit careful planning in four key areas - talent, risk assessment, organisational structure and R&D, according to consultancy Deloitte & Touche. [25 Jan 2007]
William Hill fights back against the hackers
News A number of UK bookmakers were targeted by criminal gangs two years ago, who threatened them with denial of service (DoS) attacks that would crash their websites unless they paid a ransom. Kemeny told silicon.com: "We had a DoS attack six or nine... [04 Oct 2006]
Lord: 'We need better cyber crime laws'
News He is seeking to amend Clause 40 of the Police and Justice Bill so malicious denial of service (DoS) attacks are criminalised by the CMA but legitimate political protests that slow down servers would not be. [21 Jun 2006]
World Cup security: Avaya poised to tackle DoS attacks
News Fifa's networking partner said today it was expecting hackers to launch huge denial of service attacks against the World Cup football network. Avaya's business development manager in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Roger Jones, said he expected... [09 Jun 2006]
Spammer claims scalp in antispam cyber war
News The DoS attack, which used thousands of commandeered computers to overload the sites' servers with traffic, is believed to have originated with one Russia-based spammer, the spokeswoman said. A prominent crusader against unsolicited email ads... [18 May 2006]
RFID 'not safe from DoS attacks'
News The Australian researchers said in their report that the use of frequency hopping would not stop DoS attacks, as the tags themselves could not hop frequencies. Researchers say they have proven that effective attacks can be launched against RFID tags. [18 Apr 2006]
Sun Grid battered by DoS attack
News Sun Microsystems' Grid, a publicly available computing service, was hit by a denial of service network attack on its inaugural day, the company said on Wednesday. To let people try out the Sun Grid, the company made a text-to-speech translation... [23 Mar 2006]
VeriSign warns of DoS evolution
News A new kind of denial of service attack has emerged that delivers a heftier blow to organizations' systems than previously seen DoS threats, according to VeriSign's chief security officer. The new DoS attacks first emerged in late December and... [17 Mar 2006]
