attack in white papers
Stay One Step Ahead With Comodo 2048-Bit Certificates
White Paper If one is still using a 1024-bit certificate, one may soon be vulnerable to a "Brute-Force Attack". An exponential trend in computer processing power has resulted in the ability for criminals to compromise 1024- bit key... [05 Oct 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. It is entering an era where attackers are no longer working to punch a hole n the fortress surrounding... [05 Oct 2009]
DDoS: A Threat You Can't Afford to Ignore
White Paper Distributed denial of service, otherwise known as DDoS, refers to a form of attack whereby a number of source IPs simultaneously send an abnormally large number of packets to a particular destination, thereby... [05 Oct 2009]
An Anatomy of a Web Hack: SQL Injection Explained
White Paper The nation of SQL injection isn't new, but is still widely misunderstood and many sites are still vulnerable to attack. This paper shows how easy it is to penetrate the average website and gain information about the... [05 Oct 2009]
Your Browser Wears No Clothes: Why Fully Patched Browsers Remain Vulnerable
White Paper While patch management and system hardening have long been the basics for enterprise security, shifts in technology and attack patterns are changing the rules. As users of technology, it has been taught that the Internet... [05 Oct 2009]
The Web Hacking Incidents Database 2008: Annual Report
White Paper Unlike other resources covering web site security, which focus on the technical aspect of an incident, the WHID focuses on the impact of the attack. The Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) is a project dedicated to... [05 Oct 2009]
MagicNET: The Human Immune System and Network Security System
White Paper The solution not only overcomes limitations of traditional security solutions, but also enhances overall security by providing protection at each stage of the attack timeline. Most of the current security systems do not... [05 Oct 2009]
Scraping, Denial of Service, and Brute Force Attacks! Oh My!: Identifying and Controlling Automated Clients
White Paper When a guessed password allows access to the system, the brute force attack has been successful and the attacker is able access the account. Anti-Automation defenses are critical in today's web application security... [05 Oct 2009]
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks: Latest Motivations and Methods
White Paper A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack aims to intentionally deprive legitimate users of a resource (or service) provided by a system, typically by overloading that system with a flood of data packets from... [05 Oct 2009]
Password Interception in a SSL/TLS Channel
White Paper This attack was not possible against SSL/TLS due to both unavailability of the side channel (errors are encrypted) and premature abortion of the session in case of errors. This paper extends the attack... [04 Oct 2009]
Laying the IT Security Foundation - Corralling Conficker and Other Threats in an Evolved Environment
White Paper The traditional security approach addresses each individual attack as it crops up through a detect and blocking schema. However in today's ever-changing IT environment, sophisticated threats such as Conficker worm... [02 Oct 2009]
Achieving NERC Cyber Security Standards Compliance with Lumension® Solutions
White Paper Automate vulnerability management to minimize the attack surface The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is a non-profit corporation chartered to ensure that the bulk electric system in North America... [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]
Alcatel-Lucent Attack Containment: Automated Attack Containment in Multi-Vendor Networks Using Alcatel-Lucent's OmniVista 2770 Quarantine Manager
White Paper Keeping this information secure and free from attack and compromise as it passes between and over these devices remains a primary concern for one and ones business. Business communications today are dynamic and mobile... [02 Oct 2009]
A Case Study: Using Architectural Features to Improve Sophisticated Denial-of-Service Attack Detections
White Paper Application features such as port numbers are used by Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs) to detect attacks coming from networks. System calls and the operating system related information are used by Host-based Intrusion... [02 Oct 2009]
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