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RSS attack ddosUS man charged over Akamai DDoS attack
News A Florida man has been charged with launching a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against servers run by Akamai Technologies. This DDoS attack, launched on 15... [25 Oct 2006]
High-Speed Router Filter for Blocking TCP Flooding Under DDoS Attack
White Paper This paper presents a hardware solution that can reliably block most of the malicious TCP traffic at the edge routers while passing the legitimate TCP traffic during the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)... [15 Jan 2008]
Spammers targeted with DDoS attack
News It's irresponsible of Lycos to put its name to it because it lends legitimacy to [DDoS] attacks," said Linford. The company said that when the screensaver is active it displays the location and URL of the sites users'... [30 Nov 2004]
WorldPay hit with DDoS attack
News Online transaction service Worldpay appears to be the latest victim of a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) over the weekend with its website falling off the face of the internet by Monday. Such... [04 Oct 2004]
Symantec website under DDoS attack
News An email worm is recruiting computers for a coordinated attack on antivirus vendor Symantec's website. Since Friday, email filtering vendor MessageLabs has intercepted 13,717 copies of the worm, dubbed Breatel.A-mm, and... [18 Jul 2005]
Why DDos attack didn't bring down the net
News An attack in early February on key parts of the backbone of the internet had little effect thanks to new protection technology, according to a report. The distributed denial of service attack on the... [12 Mar 2007]
Cisco DDoS Protection Solution - Delivering "Clean Pipes" Capabilities for Service Providers and Their Customers
White Paper A DDoS attack is an attack on the end host system or the network infrastructure that disrupts service to the user. It is important for service providers and enterprises to understand how... [09 Jul 2008]
Netsky attacks down four hacking and P2P sites
News Four out of the five websites targeted by a Netsky worm DDoS attack have either been knocked over, or had to change their web address to remain accessible. Earlier this week, file-sharing websites Kazaa... [08 Apr 2004]
Managed Public Key Infrastructure: Securing Your Business Applications
White Paper Although not extremely rare, they are far less common than the traditional DDoS attack method. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are quite common on the Internet today. Often... [04 Aug 2006]
Distributed Denial of Service and K2-Defender
White Paper In simple words, a DDoS attack is a coordinated attempt to starve a site of resources. It also describes how K2-Defender can be used to detect a DDoS attack in progress... [25 Feb 2004]
14-year-old 'downed Microsoft homepage for four hours'
News The teenager released the RPCSDBOT Trojan in August 2003, creating a botnet which waged a DDoS attack on Microsoft, bringing down Redmond's website for around four hours. Due to the virus writer's... [14 Feb 2005]
Al-Jazeera websites hit by denial-of-service attack
News The websites of Al-Jazeera have been taken offline, in what has been confirmed by the Qatar-based media organisation as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the company's Domain Name... [27 Mar 2003]
Untraceable Email Cluster Bombs: On Agent-Based Distributed Denial of Service
White Paper What differentiates the attack this paper described from other, already known forms of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks is that an attacker does not need to infiltrate the network in any... [21 Feb 2008]
Hackers take down Lycos anti-spam website
News The website is currently inaccessible and could also be the victim of a DDoS attack. F-Secure reported that the website had returned to normal by around 10pm (GMT) but at the time of writing... [01 Dec 2004]
Will's Web Watch: How to attack spammers in your sleep
Comment Some in the industry have even predicted that the huge army of compromised PCs in existence may one day be used to launch a devastating DDoS attack crippling dozens of websites in a co-ordinated blitz. [30 Nov 2004]
