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- Online World Series ticket sales hit by DoS attack
- DoS Attack on the World SeriesWhat do you think? Who and why?http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=341RE: Online World Series ticket sales hit by DoS attack"I’ll go on the record as predicting that DoS will not go on to mean Denial of Series victory."As a Red Sox fan, I have to admit .......You may get...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Joseph_R, sales, Online World Series, denial of service
- Discussion threads 2007-10-24
- Online World Series ticket sales hit by DoS attack
- The most sought-after sports ticket in Colorado is for one of the three World Series games scheduled to be played at Coors Field, home to the hottest team in baseball, the Colorado Rockies. Upward of 60,000 tickets for those three games were to be sold the morning of Monday, October...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Ticket, Paciolan, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Security, Sales, Joseph Rosberg
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- DHS' self-inflicted denial of service
- I found it quite funny to read about the Department of Homeland Security's self-inflicted denial of service this week. A misconfigured mailing list resulted in over 2.2 million e-mails clogging up the inboxes of subscribers to the DHS' Open Source Intelligence Report. It seems the mailing...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, E-mail Address, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Justin Fielding
- Blog posts 2007-10-07
- Spammers target antispam sites
- It's the battle of Good vs. Evil. Antispam community sites are being targeted with Denial of Service attacks by what is believed to be the same group that is behind the storm worm bot. A quote from the article at Ars Technica:...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Supercomputer, Anti-spam, Spammer, Attack, Antispam Site, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Mitigate the effects of a DDoS attack
- There's a great variety of attacks and hacks that black hats can perpetrate on your network. Fortunately, you can prevent most of them using an assortment of security measures.However, a distributed denial-of-service attack DDoS is an entirely different story. You can't thwart a DDoS attack -- they attack an IP...
- Tags: Security Solutions, Mike Mullins, Ingress filtering, Denial of Service, DDoS, Cyberwarfare, Black hat, Attack mitigation
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- P2P clients used for DoS attacks
- Not Just P2PDoS attacks are also ( and most have been since at least '99 ) caused by C++ apps, VBScript apps, .Net apps, Java apps, and application apps. P2P is nothing special, and DC+ accounts per Nethack statistics are about 10% of the P2P 'market', with apps...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), john.gooch@..., P2P, DC+, denial of service
- Discussion threads 2007-06-04
- P2P clients used for DoS attacks
- The frequency and magnitude of peer-to-peer (P2P) enabled denial of service DoS attacks are increasing, and there seems to be little organizations can do to protect themselves when using traditional approaches to web site defense.File sharing P2P networks aren’t new. Their use for sharing all types of media over the...
- Tags: Security, IT Management, Hacking, Denial of Service, Cybercrime
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Metasploit Reloaded
- HD Moore's open-source Metasploit Framework has been rewritten from scratch and released with 177 exploits, 104 payloads and new modules to exploit Wi-Fi driver vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel.In addition to hundreds of exploits and payloads, Moore said Metasploit 3.0 also ships with 30 auxiliary modules to perform tasks like...
- Tags: HD Moore, payload, See Ryan Naraine, denial of service, exploit, Wi-Fi, open source, Microsoft Windows
- Image galleries 2007-03-27
- Think 'Patch Tuesday' is just for Microsoft? Think again!
- Multiple Cisco vulnerabilities affecting IPS functionality in routers, PIX/ASA/FWSM firewalls, Switches. Multiple Cisco vulnerabilities affecting SIP/FTP/HTTP inspection in PIX/ASA products. While the patches are available, most Cisco devices are rarely if ever patched. For example, here is a long list of issues within the last three months...
- Tags: Security, Mobile/Wireless, Networking, Vista, Hardware, Desktop, Browsers, VoIP, critical flaw, critical vulnerability, flaw, vulnerability, Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., denial of service
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- Countering DNS Security Threats
- As I'm sure you know, your DNS server is one of the mostcritical components in your network infrastructure. Your DNS server is not onlynecessary for resolving Internet domain names, but Active Directory absolutelycannot function without it. That being the case, it is in your best interest toprotect your DNS server...
- Tags: Brien M. Posey MCSE, denial of service, DNS, DNS server, server
- Technical articles 2006-11-28
- Another denial-of-service bug found in Firefox 2
- George Ou Where Are You?George, I read you blog and articles regularly and always await your eloquent defenses of all things Microsoft. This is one of those times.Denial of Service?? Nonsense!! X-(.[b]FIREFOX 2 FIRST IMPRESSIONS[/b]I hav
- Tags: denial of service, FF2, JavaScript, jtnieves@..., Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, security, windows
- Discussion threads 2006-11-02
- Firefox Exploit...
- Code posted on a cracker's website TuesdayPatch released to remove exploitable error Wednesdaya one day patch time.gotta love when the real strength of OPEN SOURCE software shows even Microsoft's BEST effort as being lacking. one tenth the time for fixing a Firefox exploit over the WMF exploit.full article on it,...
- Tags: buffer-overflow, denial of service, exploit, Firefox Exploit, Jaqui, linux., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, open source, patch, windows
- Discussion threads 2006-02-09
- Copy protection software causes controversy
- Sony has recently promoted CD protection schemes, which most viewed as relatively benign technology—that is, until a security researcher recently discovered that the protection involves planting a rootkit on computers, which some are saying is equivalent to spyware. Get the details in this edition of the IT Locksmith, and get...
- Tags: Sony Corp., CD, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Mark Russinovich, John McCormick, Rootkits, Peer to peer (P2P), rootkit, software, copy protection, IT Locksmith Newsletter, Denial Of Service, Cisco IOS, Information Technology, Vulnerability, Macromedia Inc., Apple Inc., Defendant, Computer, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware
- Technical articles 2005-11-07
- Why DoS and DDoS attacks are the plague of the Internet
- DoS and DDoS attacks are not a new threat—they've been terrorizing the Internet for years. But after all these years, we're still no closer to learning how to deal with this problem. Jonathan Yarden weighs in on the threat of DoS and DDoS attacks. Several years ago, I worked...
- Tags: DOS, Jonathan Yarden, Internet, SECURITY, distributed denial of service, denial of service, Internet Security Focus Newsletter
- Technical articles 2005-11-04
- Bruzz of Lie --- Kung Fu Master ---- Tiger Fist
- blog rootDOS AttackNeed Help about Denial of Service... Please..!!! DOS AttackAdhi is The Best
- Tags: bruzzlie@..., denial of service
- Discussion threads 2005-09-06
- Deploy secure Internet connectivity with Cisco ASA and PIX firewalls
- This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls, provides a step-by-step guide for using the ASDM Startup Wizard to set up the initial configuration for your ASA/PIX Security Appliance. After completing these steps, you will be protected from both Internet-sourced attacks against...
- Tags: attack, Cisco ASA, Cisco Press, Cisco Systems Inc., denial of service, DOS, firewall, Internet, network, PIX Firewalls, VoIP
- Download resources 2005-08-08
- Cisco explains threats to enterprise network security
- This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' Designing Network Security, 2nd Edition, gives critical information on a variety of network security threats, including: Port scanning, unauthorized wireless access, default route impersonation, denial of services DoS attacks, TCP/IP session hijacking, and others. Each section provides a detailed attack description and risk...
- Tags: SECURITY, NETWORKING, Designing Network Security, network security, enterprise network, network attack, risk assessment, denial of service, TCP/IP, attack, network, wireless
- Download resources 2005-05-23
- Possible LAND attack vulnerability affects Windows XP and 2003
- Want to stay on top ofthe latest security updates? Automaticallysign up for our free IT Locksmith newsletter, delivered each Tuesday!For only the second time, Microsoft will not release a securitybulletin this month. Meanwhile, a new denial of service DoS threat appears onthe horizon, but experts debate its level of risk.DetailsMicrosoft...
- Tags: denial of service, John McCormick, Land Attack, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 2, vulnerability
- Technical articles 2005-03-14
- Denial-of-service glitch could threaten Windows
- Security researchers have published details of a denial-of-service vulnerability that could enable hackers to attack Microsoft Windows. The threat, known technically as a LAND attack, could affect Windows users by needlessly occupying their computers' processing power. Despite admitting that the potential for LAND attacks is real, Microsoft downplayed the impact...
- Tags: attack, denial of service, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Network Address Translation, Newsletter Editor, security
- Discussion threads 2005-03-09
- DoS Protection
- This chapter, taken from Cisco Press', Cisco Router Firewall Security, gives you the basics of dealing with DoS attacks. It explores ways to detect various DoS attacks, including examining router CPU utilization, using ACL statements with logging parameters, and using NetFlow. It then shows you how to implement an appropriate...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Router, DOS, DoS Protection, CPU, router, denial of service, TCP, Cisco Press, security, ACL
- Download resources 2005-02-15
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