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READ MORE »Monthly archives for October, 2009
How to Slowloris HTTP DoS
Borrowed from the link in this article, here is something I thought was cool. Its a DDoS script written for slowly, causing DDoS attacks. The script and its description can be accessed here.
READ MORE »Identifying Denial of Service Conditions Through Performance Monitoring
Here is what I would call a well-written article on explaining DoS attacks, especially the difference between a network level DoS attack and an Application layer DoS attack. The article is written by Ryan Barnett is Director of Application Security Research at Breach Security, WASC Distributed Open Proxy Honeypot Project Leader and OWASP ModSecurity Core [...]
READ MORE »Chinese Game Server Adminstrator gets arrested for doing a DDoS Attack.
It seems even game server administrators sometimes cannot endure rivals. So this game server admin in China decides to do a DDoS to level the competition, only to get arrested himself. Read this interesting article here at CRENK.COM.
READ MORE »World War III might just be fought over the Internet.
Here is a very entertaining and thought provoking article to read. World War III might not be fought over land, but the digital space, aka, the Internet. Read this here.
READ MORE »Parts of the java.net domain it seems are getting DDoS
From one of the person’s associated with Java.net – a posting on her blog shows that they have been experiencing some DDoS attacks. Not sure which area of the domain is getting the attack, but I am speculating that it would probably be their repository.
READ MORE »nix101: A niche blog worth reading.
Stumbled upon this blog http://nix101.com/ – worth reading. Talks a lot about DDoS and how to mitigate it, no-nonsense reading. Check out also the rate-limiting script for Apache aptly called BARF! The script is here.
READ MORE »Bravo Staminus: Logs now provided for…
I am not sure if this is a first, but it sure seems like a first in the industry. Most service providers who stop DDoS attack, do not provide any detailed logs, IP information, etc. on the attack. Reasons vary from inability to stop all the malicious packets (which might filter through), to secrecy, etc. [...]
READ MORE »Hackers Plan to Clobber the Cloud, Spy on Blackberries
“A new era of computing is on the rise and viruses, spies and malware developers are tagging along for the ride. The new playground for hackers is “the cloud,” the term for computer applications and services hosted on the Internet. Some of the devices making the cloud more popular these days are BlackBerries and other [...]
READ MORE »Whitehouse declares October as the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
Don’t know what to make out of it – except that the Whitehouse has decided that October will be the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. More on this here.
READ MORE »Two Romanians extradited to the US on Phishing and DDOS attack crimes.
“25 year old Petru Bogdan Belbita and 28 year old Cornel Ionut Tonita, both from Romania, were arrested in Canada and Croatia respectively. They stand accused, along with five other defendants, of duping customers of financial institutions, including PayPal, Citibank, Capital One, into divulging information such as credit card or account details, which were then [...]
READ MORE »Ping of Death
Ever wondered what a Ping of Death is? Well wonder no more. Here is a short text tutorial. Remember boys & girls. It is a federal offense to DDoS/DoS. So please don’t do it. Play around on your LAN, but don’t DDoS anyone.
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