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Targeted attacks to add to ISP woesOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 58 days ago (http://go.theregister.com)
Category: security | Tags targeted, attacks, isp, dns, dos, poisoning, hijacking, security,
John Leyden writes, "The large-brute force denial of service attacks of yesteryear have been joined by service-level and application-targeted attacks, DNS poisoning and route hijacking assaults that read more »
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Estonia fines man for 'cyber war'.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 336 days ago (http://news.bbc.co.uk)
Category: security | Tags estonia, fine, cyber, war, ddos, dos, , ,
The BBC reports on the fining of Dmitri Galushkevich over $2,000 USD for his participation in the massive DDoS attack against Estonian government and commercial institutions. Dmitri is the first indi read more »
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Open BIOSes and Legacy BIOS Systems.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 456 days ago (http://www-128.ibm.com)
Category: hardware | Tags bios, cmos, boot, kernel, bootstrap, dos, , ,
Peter Seebach has written an excellent article over at IBM on how BIOS' function, how they require much more processing time than necessary, and what open source BIOS solutions are doing to rectify read more »
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Spammers launch denial of service attacks against antispam sitesOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 482 days ago (http://arstechnica.com)
Category: security | Tags spammers, antispam, dos, ddos, , , , ,
Spammers are launching massive DoS and DDoS attacks against anti-spam sites with computational power that is believed to be greater than the world's greatest supercomputers. read more »
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'Cyberwar' and Estonia's Panic AttackOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 501 days ago (http://blog.wired.com)
Category: security | Tags estonia, russia, ddos, dos, cyberwar, , , ,
Kevin Poulsen blogs over at Wired about the recent cyber attacks on Estonia. read more »
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