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RSS dosHow It Works: DOS Floppy Disk Boot Sector
White Paper This article is a disassembly of a floppy disk boot sector for a DOS floppy. This sector is created by a floppy disk formating program, such as the DOS FORMAT program. The boot sector of a floppy disk is located at cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1. [06 May 2004]
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]
DOS to Windows CE Migration: How - and Why - to Develop Enterprise Mobility Applications for the Windows CE Environment
White Paper It also describes how Symbol can help you migrate your existing DOS applications with the Symbol Mobile Developer Kits (SMDKs). This white paper provides a general overview of developing enterprise mobility applications for your Symbol devices... [16 Apr 2007]
Security on IP Networks: Countering Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks An Overview of the Key Challenges and Countermeasures
White Paper Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks have emerged as the latest threat to globally linked networks. In just the few months since their first appearance, DoS attacks have already taken some of the most popular e-commerce sites off-line for several hours... [24 Feb 2004]
DoS attack risk for Firefox 1.5 users
News Exploit code for the latest version of open-source browser Firefox was published on Wednesday, potentially putting users at risk of a denial of service (DoS) attack. This stalled browser creates a DoS condition. [09 Dec 2005]
DoS-Winlock // NETDLL16.EXE // C:\RECYCLED\winlock.exe (Mcafee)
White Paper VirusÊName: DoS-Winlock The next time Windows is rebooted, the trojan starts its DoS attack and stays resident in memory. RiskÊAssessment: Low Virus Information: DateÊDiscovered: 2/4/2002 Origin: Unknown [14 Aug 2003]
Teenager in court over "email bomb" DoS attack
News This amount of email could cause an email server to crash — and is hence classed as a form of denial-of-service (DoS) attack. This case will prove to be a test of the effectiveness of the CMA as no-one has yet been successfully convicted under the... [01 Nov 2005]
Mobile porn at risk of DoS attacks, says Gartner
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'. The report said: "We recommend that mobile carriers... [25 Oct 2005]
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]
DiscountASP.NET Wards Off DoS Threats & 10 Million Online Attacks With TippingPoint Protecting Its Customers
White Paper In May 2005, a distributed Denial of Service (DoS) attack targeted one of the many Web sites that DiscountASP.NET hosts. To thwart the attacks, DiscountASP.NET contacted vendors of intrusion prevention and DoS protection solutions, such as Mazu... [20 Oct 2006]
Best Practices for Preventing DoS/Denial of Service Attacks
White Paper Many corporate websites have suffered from illegal denial-of-service (DoS) attacks more than once. The best practices in this paper are a sample of some of the common conclusions companies have come to following a DoS attack. [10 Apr 2008]
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]
What's DOS Do?
White Paper When a user creates a SunPCi emulated drive, the user actually generates a virtual PC disk containing a fairly complete version of a DOS operating system. This paper discusses a little of the history, details and usage of that DOS operating system... [30 Nov 2003]
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]
Low-Rate TCP-Targeted DoS Attack Disrupts Internet Routing
White Paper Compared to attacks against end hosts, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against the Internet infrastructure such as those targeted at routers can be more devastating due to their global impact on many networks. [05 Dec 2007]
