traffic attack
RSS traffic attack8 Elements of Complete Vulnerability Management
White Paper Off late threat landscape offers attackers a much larger selection of attack points in the form of open firewall ports for business traffic, web or others servers behind the firewall, along with all... [13 Nov 2009]
DDoS: Survey of Traceback Methods
White Paper It is important to protect the resource and trace from the Denial of Service (DoS) attack, but it is difficult to distinguish normal traffic and DoS attack traffic... [12 Nov 2009]
The Attacker Within: How Hackers Are Targeting Enterprise Networks From the Inside-Out
White Paper As enterprise defenses evolve, so too do the attack vectors leveraged by those seeking to bypass such controls. Thanks to the meteoric rise in the importance of web-based traffic and a laundry list of... [06 Oct 2009]
The Early Detection of DDoS Based on the Persistent Increment Feature of the Traffic Volume
White Paper The scheme can detect a DDoS attack in its early stages when the attacking packet's attribute value has no distinct features. This paper proposes a new algorithm based on the persistent increment tendency of DDoS... [02 Oct 2009]
Wireless Intrusion Prevention Systems
White Paper While an attacker needs physical access to a wired network in order to launch an attack, a wireless network allows anyone within its range to passively monitor the traffic or even start an... [02 Oct 2009]
Using 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. The paper will reflect a method to alert when changes occur outside... [02 Oct 2009]
Detecting Pulsing Denial-of-Service Attacks With Nondeterministic Attack Intervals
White Paper This paper addresses the important problem of detecting Pulsing Denial of Service (PDoS) attacks which send a sequence of attack pulses to reduce TCP throughput. In particular, the attack model admits... [02 Oct 2009]
Preprocessing DNS Log Data for Effective Data Mining
White Paper Simple linear interpolation of the holes in the data does not preserve features such as peaks in traffic (which can occur during an attack, making them of particular interest). The Domain Name Service... [29 Aug 2009]
Twitter goes down as another attack hits
News We're back up and analysing the traffic data to determine the nature of this attack," the company said. At 19:17, Twitter confirmed that it was an attack. The sight greeting Twitter... [12 Aug 2009]
Was Twitter, Facebook denial-of-service the result of attack on a single account?
News A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites... [07 Aug 2009]
Why Google's security arm doesn't have a war room
News The playbooks explain how to attack a problem and what to do in case of specific types of events. Postini found that one attack alone, on 18 June, unleashed 50 per cent of a typical day's spam volume in... [02 Jul 2009]
Analysis of a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
White Paper In order to evaluate the effectiveness of this technique, they have analyzed the packet traffic data collected at the routers in two sites: a university department network (16,800,000 packets/hr) and an ISP backbone... [30 Jun 2009]
Fishing for Phishing From the Network Stream
White Paper Phishing is an increasingly prevalent social-engineering attack that attempts identity theft using spoofed Web pages of legitimate organizations. Anti-phishing techniques could be more effective if they could detect... [30 Jun 2009]
IP Voice Security: Red Herring or Real Risk?
White Paper A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack occurs when someone deliberately floods a particular network with so much illegitimate network traffic that it affects the support of legitimate traffic.... [30 Jun 2009]
A Hybrid Approach to Efficient Detection of Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Paper The system is designed as a two-stage architecture incorporating the change-point detection methodology, used for early attack identification, and further spectral profiling, used for confirmation of the... [20 Jun 2009]
