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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.
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U.K. outlaws denial-of-service attacks
November 10, 2006
A newly passed law makes it illegal to impair the operation of a computer and closes a potential legal loophole.
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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.
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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.
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Cisco plugs security holes
April 7, 2006
Flaws in software that runs various Cisco Systems networking infrastructure products could allow denial of service attacks.
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Another denial-of-service bug found in Firefox 2
November 1, 2006
Mozilla downplays the issue, saying only minor problems have been found in the week after the browser's release.
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Academics break the Great Firewall of China
July 3, 2006
University of Cambridge computer experts say they breached firewall and can use it to launch denial-of-service attacks.
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Cisco patches security flaws in number of products
May 24, 2007
Updates address vulnerabilities in products ranging from Cisco Unified CallManager to Cisco Firewall Service Module.
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Akamai hacker pleads guilty
December 8, 2006
John Bombard faces up to two years in prison for distributed denial-of-service attack.
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Black Frog leaps into fight against spam
May 25, 2006
Okopipi project aims to continue antispam campaign launched by now-defunct Blue Frog effort, which suffered a DOS attack.
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Sun Grid hit by network attack
March 23, 2006
Public computing service was hit by a denial-of-service attack that took down its text-to-speech service.
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PayPal
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Straight talking on terrorism
November 17, 2004
Richard Clarke, former U.S. counterterrorism chief, tells what countries are really doing about cybersecurity.
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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.
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Trio of Cisco flaws may threaten networks
January 25, 2007
Holes in software that controls Cisco's routers and switches could let miscreants cripple computer networks, including the Internet.
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DNS servers do hackers' dirty work
March 24, 2006
New twist on denial-of-service attacks could intensify cybercriminals' threat to online business.
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Nominum Inc.
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VeriSign Inc.
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'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.
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Florida man charged in botnet attack on Akamai
October 24, 2006
Prosecutors allege he used an e-mail worm to create a network of hijacked PCs that swamped the victim's servers.
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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.
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Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'
March 4, 2008
ATMs that rely on desktop PC technology--and that's a lot of them--are at risk from worms, key loggers, and denial-of-service attacks.
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Windows 2000 SMTP Malformed Data Transfer Vulnerability Patch MS02-012
Prevent a possible Denial of Service Attack with this patch for Windows 2000.
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