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Why Google's security arm doesn't have a war room
News To block fresh spam attacks not covered by existing heuristic technologies and viruses not covered by existing signature databases Postini relies on proprietary Zero-Hour technology to identify new outbreaks that show up in the... [02 Jul 2009]
Why Email Fails
White Paper Research, email traffic between 2008 and 2012 is projected to grow by 68%. Email has become the most pervasive form of business communication, impacting every aspect of every organization: communications between... [29 Jun 2009]
2020: When the world and its toothbrush gets online
News But can the mobile industry cope with this traffic explosion? According to Ericsson, mobile traffic is doubling every year - or in other words the industry is looking at carrying 1,000 times more... [29 Jun 2009]
'Don't let European telecoms law get axed', says Ofcom
News Instead, other methods - ranging from letter writing to the blocking or throttling of certain types of traffic - will have to be used by ISPs to discourage their users from breaking intellectual property laws. [26 Jun 2009]
BT hooks up with Tata in five-year call-handling deal
News Hopefully it should lead to cost reduction," said Srinivasa Addepalli, Tata Communication's senior vice president for corporate strategy, adding it should add to profitability as they would be able to "manage traffic... [26 Jun 2009]
Traffic-Adaptive Packet Filtering of Denial of Service Attacks
White Paper Traffic-adaptive packet filtering is a mechanism to adjust packet classification methods at run-time to the particular traffic mix a network node is receiving. It has been conjectured previously that... [25 Jun 2009]
D-WARD: A Source-End Defense Against Flooding Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Paper Defenses against flooding distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) commonly respond to the attack by dropping the excess traffic, thus reducing the overload at the victim. The major challenge is the differentiation of the... [25 Jun 2009]
Proactively Defeating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
White Paper A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is an explicit attempt to interrupt an online service by generating a high volume of malicious traffic. The aggregate traffic at the destination router may... [25 Jun 2009]
Quality of Service and Denial of Service
White Paper To date, the most cost-effective way of improving the treatment of some traffic has been to improve the treatment of all traffic. This paper argues that most forms of internet QoS must provide protection... [25 Jun 2009]
Tackling Congestion to Address Distributed Denial of Service: A Push-Forward Mechanism
White Paper One common method of attack is overwhelming the target machine with a large volume of traffic. Distributed Denial of Service attacks prevent legitimate users from accessing a target machine or the service a target... [25 Jun 2009]
HP ProCurve Provides Multi-Protocol Support for New Steria LAN
White Paper They wanted to support heavy network traffic and bandwidth-hungry applications and identify best LAN architecture to meet end-user needs. Steria is one of Europe's ten largest IT services groups, offering consultancy,... [25 Jun 2009]
Trivial Denial of Service Attack Against TCP-Based VPN
White Paper Whether it's a simple SSL/TCP tunneling or a complex custom VPN protocol, they all depart from the concept of sessionless traffic protection and employ TCP to traverse firewalls, proxies and address translation devices. [25 Jun 2009]
On a Network Forensics Model for Information Security
White Paper It always is misconstrued to an only network traffic capture system. The employment of a patchwork of nonintegrated security products can only provide incomplete coverage, which cannot give the total panorama of the... [25 Jun 2009]
Detection and Prevention of DNS Query PTR Record-Based Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
White Paper Thus, one can detect the DNS query-based DDoS attack by only watching the traffic of unregistered IP address-based DNS query PTR record packets. The syslog messages of the topdomain DNS servers in Kumamoto University... [25 Jun 2009]
Detecting Denial-of-Service Attacks With Incomplete Audit Data
White Paper Factors like noise in the audit data, mobility of the nodes and the large amount of network data generated by the network make it difficult to build a normal traffic profile of the network for the purpose of anomaly... [25 Jun 2009]