Denial of Service Prevention

NEWS: 1 - 3 of 21

	Black Hat 2007: Estonian attacks were a cyber riot, not warfare SearchSecurity.com | 03 Aug 2007 ARTICLE - Researcher Gadi Evron says recent attacks against Estonia weren't government-sponsored warfare, but the U.S. and other countries could learn from Estonia's successful response.

	Experts doubt Russian government launched DDoS attacks SearchSecurity.com | 18 May 2007 ARTICLE - Distributed denial-of-service attacks against Estonian systems probably originated from smaller groups in control of botnets rather than the Russian government, experts say.

	Metasploit Framework 3.0 released SearchSecurity.com | 27 Mar 2007 ARTICLE - Brief: Metasploit Framework 3.0 contains 177 exploits, 104 payloads, 17 encoders and 30 auxiliary modules that perform such tasks as host discovery and protocol fuzzing.

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EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE: 1 - 3 of 9

DENIAL OF SERVICE PREVENTION EXPERTS
			Mike Chapple IT Security Professional ASK A QUESTION

	Can smurf attacks cause more than just a denial of service? 24 May 2007 EXPERT ANSWER - Smurf attacks are one of the oldest denial-of-service tricks in a hacker's book. In this SearchSecurity.com Q&A, expert Mike Chapple explains whether such an attacks can do more than just slow your network down.

	Can service providers prevent DDoS attacks? 09 Apr 2007 EXPERT ANSWER - The results of a DDoS attack can be crippling, but what are service providers doing about the threat? In this SearchSecurity.com Q&A, Ed Skoudis explains how innovative ISPs are raising the bar -- and malicious hackers are ...

	How to recover your network after a security breach Submitted By: SearchNetworking.com | 11 May 2006 TIP - In this tip, Tom Lancaster pinpoints the five most important considerations for nursing your network back to health.

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REFERENCE & LEARNING: 1 - 3 of 7

	Web Application Attacks Learning Guide SearchSecurity.com | 11 May 2006 LEARNING GUIDE - This guide explains how Web application attacks occur, identifies Web application attacks, and provides Web application security tools and tactics to protect against them.

	SearchSecurity.com's Intrusion Defense School 12 Apr 2006 SECURITY SCHOOL - Joel Snyder puts the pieces of intrusion defense -- antivirus, antispyware, IDS/IPS, etc. -- in perspective to help you implement a strategy that meets your needs.

	Achieving network security with tomorrow's antivirus tools 12 Apr 2006 SECURITY SCHOOL - An analysis of AV from an intelligence/technology perspective and best practices for simple file-type blocking, and the implementation of heuristic- and reputation-based AV.

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MAGAZINE CONTENT (free subscription required): 1 - 1 of 1

	Ping Information Security Magazine | 01 Feb 2006 COLUMNS - Yan Noblot

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WHITE PAPERS

	Top Threats to Mobile Networks - And What to Do about Them Published by: Alcatel-Lucent | 17 Nov 2008 WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the most common attacks on mobile networks and what to do about them.

	Best Practices Guide: Protecting Your Network from Denial of Service Attacks Published by: Juniper Networks, Inc. | 28 Jul 2008 WHITE PAPER - This paper describes several types of DoS floods that are plaguing today's enterprise networks and details how to detect and counter them.

	Sapphire DNS Anycast Published by: BT INS | 09 Jun 2008 WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper details how a new solution increases efficiency in deployment of DNS services.

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DEFINITIONS: 1 - 3 of 4

	pulsing zombie 28 Oct 2003 WORD - A pulsing zombie is a computer whose security has been compromised without its owner's knowledge by a cracker so that it intermittently carries out a denial-of-service attack on target computers in a network. Unlike a ...

	Electrohippies Collective 08 Apr 2004 WORD - The Electrohippies Collective is an international group of hacktivists based in Oxfordshire, England, whose purpose is to express its displeasure with the use of the Internet "as a tool for corporate communications and ...

	packet monkey 13 Feb 2004 WORD - On the Internet, a packet monkey is someone (see cracker, hacker, and script kiddy) who intentionally inundates a Web site or network with data packets, resulting in a denial-of-service situation for users of the attacked ...

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	SEE ALSO - Topics Related to Denial of Service Prevention:  Network Scanning, Network Behavior Anomaly Detection (NBAD), Security Event Management, Monitoring Network Traffic and Network Forensics, Network Intrusion Detection (IDS), Network Intrusion Prevention (IPS)