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March 25, 2007 Problem in the way Windows PCs obtain network settings could let attackers hijack traffic, researchers warn. TAGS: attacker, WINS, DNS, Windows PC, traffic, researcher, article, domain name, R&D, server, Microsoft Internet Explorer, attack, security, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, Microsoft Windows

June 1, 2004 The company's $29 million purchase of MagniFire puts it in the application firewall market, as F5 prepares to battle bigger companies for a piece of the network security pie. TAGS: F5 Networks Inc., MagniFire, application firewall, Cisco Systems Inc., firewall, load balancing, Juniper Networks Inc., network security, security, traffic, router, server

April 9, 2004 When the dot-com boom went bust so did the market for switches that shuttle traffic between servers, but as security concerns mount, these network elements have found new ways to make themselves us... TAGS: Foundry Networks Inc., RADWARE, F5 Networks Inc., data center, Nortel Networks Corp., switch, load balancing, Cisco Systems Inc., SSL, Web hosting, dot-com, denial of service, traffic, security, server

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. TAGS: denial of service, graduate student, proposal, traffic, victim, Internet Service Provider, attack, method, server, security

October 19, 2006 Hackers aim to make networks of hijacked computers go unnoticed by merging their communications with common Web traffic. TAGS: zombie, IRC, Jose Nazario, hacker, traffic, Internet service, Internet Service Provider, service provider, technique, security, server, PC, Microsoft Corp.

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