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DDoS: A Threat You Can't Afford to Ignore
White Paper Over the years, the industry has seen many large-scale DDoS attacks, including some that took down the services of well-known, major global enterprises. Distributed denial of service, otherwise known as... [05 Oct 2009]
Preparing for Tomorrow's Threat Today: What We Can Learn from the History of Malware and Defenses
White Paper Yesterday's virus is today's custom malware, while denial of service attacks have been replaced with botnets. Current FBI estimates indicate that malicious software and attacks targeting... [01 Oct 2009]
Australian cops investigate 'anonymous' cyber attack threat
News The group published its threat on YouTube last month. One network security professional laughed when asked whether the group was considered a serious threat. The Australian Federal Police are leading the... [09 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can tech end bloody wars?
Comment Throughout my life I have seen warfare mutate from the World War II model to terrorism, the threat of weapons of mass destruction and cyber attacks. Individuals, groups and nations can attack each other... [28 Aug 2009]
Data moving to the cloud? Cybercrime will follow
News That's the type of threat we're looking to prosecute.malware that may lead to distributed denial of service attacks. The immediate threat will be... [13 Jul 2009]
Detect SYN Flooding Attack in Edge Routers
White Paper Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks pose a serious threat to Internet security. Traditional detection methods rely on passively detecting an attacking signature and are... [01 Jul 2009]
Britain to get official cyber attack dogs
News The threat of cyber-warfare among countries was highlighted by the May 2007 attacks on the Estonian national infrastructure. The government will develop information systems to allow it to launch... [25 Jun 2009]
Detecting and Mitigating Denial-of-Service Attacks on Voice Over IP Networks
White Paper In their threat model they assume an adversary who is not a network administrator, nor has direct control of the channel and key VoIP elements. Voice over IP (VoIP) is more susceptible to Denial of... [20 Jun 2009]
Dynamic and Auto Responsive Solution for Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks Detection in ISP Network
White Paper Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and more particularly the distributed ones (DDoS) are one of the latest threat and pose a grave danger to users, organizations and infrastructures of the... [11 Jun 2009]
Major Online Stock Broker Turns to Verizon Business to Help Stop a Potentially Devastating DDoS Attack
White Paper And, as a major online stock broker found out, the threat of a DDoS attack can be the perfect tool for extortion. Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are often the weapon of... [30 May 2009]
Calling 'Mister Cyber Security': EU needs super cyber cop
News She cited the massive denial-of-service attack that took down Estonia's internet services in 2007 as an example of the threat that is faced. Reding said: "Although the EU has created an agency for... [28 Apr 2009]
Denial of Service Attacks and Challenges in Broadband Wireless Networks
White Paper Amongst the various security risks, Denial of Service (DoS) attack is the most severe security threat, as DoS can compromise the availability and integrity of broadband wireless network. Security... [15 Apr 2009]
Browser hijacks and holey software skyrockets
News Most web-based attacks target visitors to legitimate websites that have been compromised and that either serve up malicious content to the visitor or embed a malicious and invisible iframe on the page that... [14 Apr 2009]
Police launch £1bn-worth of e-crime investigations
News I do not think that anybody would think that the amount of money we have at the moment will meet the threat," she said. The PCeU is already working with government agencies, businesses and banks on investigations into... [25 Mar 2009]
Defeating DDoS Attacks
White Paper Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are a real - and growing - threat to businesses worldwide. Designed to elude detection by today's most popular tools, these... [16 Mar 2009]
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