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Denial of Service Attacks

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ALSO CALLED: Distributed Denial of Service Attacks, Teardrop Attacks, Denial of Service Prevention, DOSA, Packet Monkey, Attacks, DDoS Attacks, DNS Attacks, Smurfing, Denial-of-service Attack, D o S Attacks, DoS Attacks, Smurf
DEFINITION: On the Internet, a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is one in which a multitude of compromised systems attack a single target, thereby causing denial of service for users of the targeted system. The flood of incoming messages to the target system essentially forces it to shut down, thereby denying service to the system to legitimate users.A hacker (or, if you prefer, cracker) begins a DDoS  … 
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The Business Justification for Data Security
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WHITE PAPER: Read this report to learn about the business side of data security as we build a justification model to help you determine where, and how much, to invest in protecting your information assets.
Posted: 23 Nov 2009 | Published: 23 Nov 2009


The Passing Storm: The Storm/Nuwar Botnet
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WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides a thorough explanation of one of the more potent malware classifications effecting systems and networks today – the Storm/Nuwar Botnet. While security software can mitigate the direct impact of Nuwar and other bot-related malware on individual systems, the wider effects of botnet activity need additional countermeasures.
Posted: 03 Sep 2009 | Published: 03 Sep 2009


Scraping, Denial of Service, and Brute Force Attacks! Oh My!: Identifying And Controlling Automated Clients
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WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this whitepaper is to outline how Breach Security products can help to not only identify automated clients accessing your site, but to also take appropriate countermeasures to enforce a desired rate-limit threshold.
Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Published: 14 Aug 2009

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DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS DEFINITION (continued): …  attack by exploiting a vulnerability in one computer system and making it the DDoS "master." It is from the master system that the intruder identifies and communicates with other systems that can be compromised. The intruder loads cracking tools available on the Internet on multiple -- sometimes thousands of -- compromised systems. With a single command, the intruder instructs the controlled machines to launch one of many flood attacks against a specified target. The inundation of packets to the target causes a denial of service. While the press tends to focus on the target of DDoS attacks as … 
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