Visit the ESet Blog.

ESet the makers of NOD32 antivirus software have a blog that is truly worth reading. You can access the blog at: http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/

NSF to Fund Defense from DOS Attacks

Stevens Institute of Technology will get funded by NSF for Defense from Denial of Service Attacks.

Read the detailed Press Release here.

JustBet.com – Sports Booking Website Under DDoS

It is being reported that the website JustBet.com is under DDoS.

Existing Justbet players who would like to access Justbet’s alternate URL must call 1-800-274-8313 for the backup website. SBR will update when Justbet is back online.

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Hot 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.

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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 Rule Set Project Leader.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

However, I think Staminus may have just raised the bar. I just came across their forum post (which is quite old), but I was totally taken back. Staminus is now providing detailed log reports, etc. from the client’s Control Panel.

More on this here.

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