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RSS attackA Silent SMS Denial of Service (DoS) Attack
White Paper In contrast, a mass continuous send of "Silent" SMS messages constitutes an invisible Denial of Service (DoS) attack on a mobile handset. Such a mobile handset DoS attack may be conducted for economic... [14 Oct 2008]
Attack cripples the blogosphere
News About 10 million LiveJournal and TypePad blogs were offline or barely reachable for several hours on Tuesday as the result of a massive denial of service attack. The attack started around 16:00(PDT),... [04 May 2006]
Attack Prevention Technology White Paper
White Paper This paper introduces the common network attacks and the corresponding prevention measures, and describes the features and network applications of the H3C firewall attack prevention technology. It includes the... [11 Jun 2009]
Does Single Sign-On Really Expose the Network to a "Keys to the Kingdom" Attack?
White Paper Does this single point of authentication also introduce a single point of attack and thereby reduce overall network security? Single sign-on enables users to authenticate once in order to access many resources. [01 Mar 2009]
Attack code for old Firefox bug hits the net
News Computer code that demonstrates how a known flaw in an older version of the Firefox or Mozilla web browsers can be exploited in a potentially crippling attack was published on the web over the weekend. [14 Dec 2005]
WorldPay systems still under "sustained" attack
News Online payment service WorldPay is still struggling to maintain the availability of its systems in the face of a "sustained" denial of service attack. WorldPay, which is part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, was... [06 Nov 2003]
Denial of service attack victim speaks out
News To this day his website is under continual attack. Asif Malik, founder of NoChex, said his first contact with these hackmailers was in August 2004 when he received an email saying his website would be taken down by a... [27 May 2005]
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. Aisling MacRunnels, Sun's senior director of utility... [23 Mar 2006]
Chip and PIN hack attack demoed
News Two Cambridge researchers have devised a relay attack with a hacked chip and PIN terminal that could enable attackers to bypass bank card security measures. In the prototype attack demonstrated by Drimer... [06 Feb 2007]
Cisco issues cyber attack alert
News A serious flaw in Cisco Systems software puts computer networks at risk of cyber attack and has prompted security vendor Symantec to raise its internet threat level. Repeated exploitation could result in a sustained... [08 Sep 2005]
Bug leaves Windows open to Java attack
News Email clients that place restrictions on HTML content in messages, such as some newer versions of Outlook, would prevent the attack from succeeding. Microsoft said that a component of Indexing Services called... [10 Apr 2003]
Drain on security staff leaving companies open to attack
News A lack of skilled security workers is leaving companies vulnerable to attack, according to Richard Parkinson, northern European managing director of Network Associates' (NAI). The market hasn't progressed in terms of... [03 Dec 1999]
US attack forces security conference to change tack
News The three day ISSE (Information Security Solutions Europe) conference scheduled to open next Wednesday (26th September) in London, will now include important issues directly related to the FBI's warning for companies to be alert and... [21 Sep 2001]
Don't Spread Firefox: Hack attack strikes again
News After the July attack, Mozilla instituted procedures to ensure it would not overlook any more security fixes. The latest attack is not likely to have exposed any user information, according to the email. [05 Oct 2005]
Chinese human rights Web site comes under attack
News Ashim Pal, an analyst at the Meta Group, said that the speed of the attack didn't surprise him, even though it was on a supposedly secure government site. He added that almost 60 per cent of companies don't even take the... [28 Oct 1998]
