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February 10, 2000 One by one, leading sites on the Web have been brought to their knees by so-called denial of service attacks. CNET News.com shows you how such attacks work and how companies can prevent them.JavaScript opens doors to browser-based attacks
July 28, 2006 Malicious code embedded in Web site can let miscreant map a home or corporate network, attack connected devices.Cyberattack in Estonia--what it really means
May 29, 2007 Arbor Networks' Jose Nazario takes stock of the denial-of-service attack against the Baltic nation--and the wider implications.DNS servers do hackers' dirty work
March 24, 2006 New twist on denial-of-service attacks could intensify cybercriminals' threat to online business.'Final Fantasy XI' under attack
April 18, 2005 DDoS attacks bog down performance of Square Enix's online services; gamers in Japan, Europe and North America affected.Internet backbone at center of suspected attack
February 7, 2007 Hackers may have targeted DNS servers that form the backbone of the Internet--but no damage was done, experts believe.New denial-of-service threat emerges
March 16, 2006 Attacks targeted 1,500 IP addresses and delivered a heftier blow than normal DOS threats, VeriSign security chief says.New shield foiled Internet backbone attack
March 9, 2007 ICANN report says new load-balancing technology helped the Internet withstand a February attack on the domain name system.'Nimda' worm strikes Net, e-mail
September 19, 2001 The Nimda worm floods the Internet with scans for vulnerable servers and e-mail, prompting the FBI to create a task force to investigate the attack, sources say.DNS servers--an Internet Achilles' heel
August 3, 2005 Scan finds that hundreds of thousands of the servers that act as the white pages of the Net are vulnerable to attack.Microsoft hands out antidote to poisoned URLs
April 7, 2005 Recommends changing server software configurations to help protect against DNS cache poisoning, a technique used in online attacks.Experts: Sober time bomb's under control
January 4, 2006 Variant of worm that clogged e-mail servers is expected to attack this week, but antivirus specialists aren't worried.Antispam advocate succumbs to spammer
May 18, 2006 Eran Reshef, who asked people to bury spammers simply by replying to spam e-mails, falls victim to mass online attack.Taking aim at denial-of-service attacks
May 13, 2003 Graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University propose plans for stopping high-volume digital onslaughts that are used to shut down Internet sites.'Zombie' PCs caused Web outage, Akamai says
June 16, 2004 Attackers built a "botnet" of unknowing home PCs to bring down Google and other sites, the company says.Security from A to Z: DDoS
November 27, 2006 Denial-of-service attacks, which take down a Web resource, are used by digital blackmailers. Part of a series on hot security topics.'Second Life' fending off denial-of-service attacks
May 1, 2006 Popular virtual world taken offline twice over the weekend so its publisher could clean up effects of grid attacks.Phishing fight may be paying off
October 14, 2005 Though the number of phishing sites has hit a new high, swift action is making it tougher to launch attacks.Microsoft grapples with attack on MSN Korea site
June 3, 2005 Hackers apparently aimed to steal user information from the news section of the South Korean MSN Web site.Virus writers follow the money
March 21, 2005 More than half of recent major Net threats try to glean identity theft data, according to a new Symantec study.
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