Denial of Service
A Summary of DoS/DDoS Prevention, Monitoring and Mitigation Techniques in a Service Provider Environment
The frequency and sophistication of Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS) on the Internet are rapidly increasing. Service providers are under mounting pressure to prevent, ...
Written by: Michael Glenn and added on June 13, 2011Denial of Service attacks and the emergence of "Intrusion Prevention Systems"
Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have been the mainstay of network security perimeters for many years and have evolved over time with increasing sophistication and technological advance to maintain ...
Written by: Adrian Brindley and added on March 5, 2011Closing the Floodgates: DDoS Mitigation Techniques
To be on the receiving end of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is a nightmare scenario for any network administrator, security specialist or access provider. It begins instantly, ...
Written by: Matthew Tanase and added on March 6, 2011Help Defeat Denial of Service Attacks: Step-by-Step
Organizations that operate networks connected to the Internet may be serving as unwitting participants in Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks like those that hit many organizations in early February, 2000. ...
Written by: Unknown and added on March 31, 2011Consensus Roadmap for Defeating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
The distributed denial of service attacks during the week of February 7 highlighted security weaknesses in hosts and software used in the Internet that put electronic commerce at risk. These ...
Written by: Rich Pethia, Alan Paller, and Gene Spafford and added on Jan. 20, 2011Barbarians at the Gate: An Introduction to Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
Recently, major news outlets reported that a coordinated attack designed to disable several of the Internet's root name servers had taken place. The attack, described as sophisticated and complex, is ...
Written by: Matt Tanase and added on June 24, 2011An introduction to the Fake players bug and DoS 0.1.1
An attacker can fill a game server with a custom number of inexistent players (1 player is 'emulated' by no more than one or two packets of data) and the ...
Written by: Luigi Auriemma and added on Jan. 17, 2011Internet Denial of Service Attacks and the Federal Response
Distributed systems based on the client/server model have become increasingly common. In recent months, there has been an increase in the development and use of distributed network sniffers, scanners, and ...
Written by: Katherine T. Fithen and added on Feb. 6, 2011Managing the Threat of Denial-of-Service Attacks
Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks have been launched against Internet sites for years. They are a significant problem because they can shut an organization off from the Internet and because there is ...
Written by: Allen Householder, Art Manion, Linda Pesante, George M. Weaver, and Rob Thomas and added on Jan. 29, 2011Bots & Botnet: An Overview
Using thousands of zombie machines to launch distributed denial of service attack against enterprise and government internet resources by attackers is becoming dangerously common trend.
Written by: Ramneek Puri and added on May 10, 2011