attacks
RSS attacksUsing NetFlow Auditor to Assist in Identifying Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks and Other Network Behavior Anomalies
White Paper This Paper covers how Denial of Service Attacks (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDos) can be identified early to mitigate and attack. A game-changing Network Auditing technology called... [02 Oct 2009]
Symantec Report: Attacks Increasingly Target Trusted Web Sites
White Paper It covers Internet attacks, vulnerabilities, malicious code, phishing, spam, and security risks. According to the latest report, attackers have adopted stealth tactics that prey on end users on individual computers via... [29 May 2009]
Surviving Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
White Paper Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks aim to disrupt the service of information systems by overwhelming the processing capacity of systems or by flooding the network bandwidth of the targeted business. [13 Oct 2008]
Attacks on Virtual Machine Emulators
White Paper This paper describes known attacks against the most widely used virtual machine emulators (VMware and VirtualPC). This paper also demonstrates newly discovered attacks on other virtual machine emulators... [09 Jan 2008]
APSolute OS: Mitigating Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks
White Paper The APSolute OS consists of two fully integrated modules: Intrusion Prevention (IP) and DoS protection, designed to mitigate against application-level attacks and secure all networked applications, users and server... [22 Oct 2008]
Analyzing Interaction Between Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks and Threats
White Paper Denial of Service (DoS) attacks constitutes one of the major threats and among the hardest security problems in today's internet. Of particular concern are Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks,... [20 Jun 2009]
Cisco - Strategies to Protect Against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
White Paper This white paper contains information to help the reader understand how DDoS attacks are orchestrated, recognize programs used to facilitate DDoS attacks, apply measures to prevent the... [01 Nov 2006]
A Queueing Analysis for the Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks in Computer Networks
White Paper In most network security analysis, researchers mainly focus on qualitative studies on security schemes and possible attacks, and there are few papers on quantitative analysis in the current literature. [14 Oct 2008]
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks: Evolution, Impact, & Solutions
White Paper Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks have existed since the early days of computing and have evolved into complex and overwhelming security challenges. Organizations have had to worry not just about DoS... [05 Oct 2009]
Attacks still battering unpatched Windows flaws
News Microsoft issued a rare, out-of-cycle Windows patch on Tuesday that fixed one flaw but attacks through other known, yet-to-be-plugged holes continue. Microsoft on Wednesday warned of "limited zero-day... [28 Sep 2006]
Attacks and Countermeasures: A Study of Network Attack Classes and Security Components to Protect Against Them
White Paper There are many types of network attacks, and security solutions to address almost all of them. Most attack types fall into three major categories: attacks on integrity, attacks on... [02 Sep 2008]
Active Internet Traffic Filtering: Real-Time Response to Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Paper This paper describes Active Internet Traffic Filtering (AITF), a mechanism for blocking highly Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks are an acute contemporary problem, with few... [14 Oct 2008]
Hardening Web Browsers Against Man-in-the-Middle and Eavesdropping Attacks
White Paper However, few users understand the risk of man-in-the-middle attacks and the principles behind certificate-based authentication. Existing Web browsers handle security errors in a manner that often confuses users. [03 Dec 2008]
Phishers spawn more keylogger attacks
News Keylogger attacks are a particular problem in Brazil, where two recent schemes targeted more than 100,000 .br email accounts, the report found. However, the machine that hosted the malicious code in one of the... [05 May 2005]
LIP: A Lightweight Interlayer Protocol for Preventing Packet Injection Attacks in Mobile Ad Hoc Network
White Paper Most ad hoc networks do not implement any network access control, leaving these networks vulnerable to packet injection attacks where a malicious node injects packets into the network with the goal of depleting the... [31 Aug 2007]
