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| | Denial-of-service attack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Denial of Service attacks can also lead to problems in the network 'branches' around the actual computer being attacked. | | | A denial-of-service attack (also, DoS attack) is an attack on a computer system or network that causes a loss of service to users, typically the loss of network connectivity and services by consuming the bandwidth of the victim network or overloading the computational resources of the victim system. | | | In a distributed attack, the attacking computer hosts are often zombie computers with broadband connections to the Internet that have been compromised by viruses or Trojan horse programs that allow the perpetrator to remotely control the machine and direct the attack, often through a botnet. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
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| | Internet Security Systems - Denial of Service FAQ |
| | After gaining the proper access on the host machine, the attacker will install software that places services or daemons on the host system (hereafter referred to as agents.) These agents will lie dormant on the host system until they are given a command from their master. | | | It is possible that the ISP can take action to block the attacks before they reach your computer systems. | | | Monitor important systems during the attack using intrusion detection software or services. |
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http://www.iss.net/news/denialfaq.php
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| | Open Directory - Computers: Internet: Abuse: Denial of Service |
| | Denial of Service Database - Details of many attacks: categorized by platform affected and using OSAT notation. | | | Denial of Service Attacks White Papers, Webcasts and Product Information from Top IT Vendors - Research the latest Denial of Service Attacks technologies, tools and techniques. | | | Trinoo Analysis - An analysis of the DoS Project's trin00 master/slave programs, which implement a distributed network denial of service tool. |
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http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Abuse/Denial_of_Service
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| | Computer Associates Security Advisor Center Glossary |
| | These were mostly the agents (the part that implements the attack service), but a few examples of masters - the component that keeps track of the agents availability and sends the commands to begin and end an attack - were also captured. | | | An attack on a computer system intended to reduce, or entirely block, the level of service that 'legitimate clients' can receive from that system. | | | Some generic approaches to virus detection create 'dummy' program files which are written to the drives of the machines being monitored. |
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http://www3.ca.com/virusinfo/glossary.aspx
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| | Denial of Service Attacks |
| | Denial of Service (or DoS for short) attacks are a kind of attacks against computers connected to the Internet. | | | If you just want a quick overview of the DoS attacks, this summary by Roman Markowski at Tango Group Internal Technology Seminars might serve your need well. | | | DoS attacks exploit bugs in a specific operating system or vulnerabilities in TCP/IP implementation. |
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http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chuang/dos.html
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| | O'Reilly Network: Preventing Distributed Denial of Service Attacks |
| | More sophisticated denial of service attacks might involve exploiting bugs or design problems in specific types of servers to cause the server to become extremely busy or fail completely. | | | In an Internet environment, a service might be an application such as a web or mail server, or a network service like routing of datagrams. | | | A distributed denial of service attack exploits several machines to make the attack. |
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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/108
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| | Denial of Service or "Nuke" Attacks |
| | The purpose of this page is to provide information and defenses against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, which cause networked computers to disconnect from the network or just outright crash. | | | For example, Jeffrey Lee Parson, the 19 year old who wrote a variant of the Blaster worm and used it to attack 48,000 computers, was sentenced to 18 months in prison in January 2005, and may additionally have to pay a substantial fine. | | | Often the victims are people on Internet Relay Chat (IRC), but DoS attacks do not involve IRC servers in any way, so IRC operators (IRC ops) cannot stop or punish the offenders. |
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http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/nuke
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| | Denial of Service with Windows XP |
| | Denial of Service with Windows XP Why Windows XP will be the | | | Due to the sheer volume of Windows XP machines soon to be loose in the world, Unix systems will quickly be supplanted as the premiere launching pad for new torrents of Denial of Service floods. | | | Until the advent of Windows 2000 and XP, the most common and familiar, complex, potent, and untraceable Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service attacks have only been generated from Unix-family operating systems. |
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http://grc.com/dos/winxp.htm
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| | Symantec Security Response - Denial of Service Attack (DoS) |
| | A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is not a virus but a method hackers use to prevent or deny legitimate users access to a computer. | | | Many DoS attack tools are capable of executing a distributed DoS attack. | | | For example, imagine a hacker creates a program that calls a local pizza store. |
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http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/dos.attack.html
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| | US-CERT Cyber Security Tip ST04-015 -- Understanding Denial-of-Service Attacks |
| | By targeting your computer and its network connection, or the computers and network of the sites you are trying to use, an attacker may be able to prevent you from accessing email, web sites, online accounts (banking, etc.), or other services that rely on the affected computer. | | | This may indicate that your computer or your organization's network is being attacked. | | | If you are having a similar experience on your home computer, consider contacting your Internet service provider (ISP). |
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http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-015.html
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| | Denial of Service attacks - DoS, DDoS (SYN flood, email bombing, icmp attacks) |
| | The reason is a single machine probably cannot create enough requests to overwhelm network equipment, hence Distributed Denial of Service Attacks were born where an attacker coordinates several computers to flood a victim. | | | These days an attacker cannot simply use one computer to craft an attack in the above fashion. | | | How are other computers used to attack a victim? |
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http://www.surasoft.com/articles/ddosa.php
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| | CERT/CC Denial of Service |
| | In addition, if your operating system supports partitions or volumes (i.e., separately mounted file systems with independent attributes) consider partitioning your file system so as to separate critical functions from other activity. | | | Tracking an intruder this way may not always be possible. | | | You should guard against unauthorized access to computers, routers, network wiring closets, network backbone segments, power and cooling stations, and any other critical components of your network. |
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http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/denial_of_service.html
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| | Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks/tools |
| | An analysis of the "Shaft" distributed denial of service tool, by Sven Dietrich, Neil Long, and David Dittrich | | | The "Tribe Flood Network" distributed denial of service attack tool, by David Dittrich | | | The DoS Project's "trinoo" distributed denial of service attack tool, by David Dittrich |
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http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/ddos
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| | PCWorld.com - Denial of Service Attacks Expected |
| | Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are those in which a target computer system is flooded with false requests for information to the point that it is unable to respond to legitimate requests, denying them service. | | | There is a high probability that the U.S. critical computer infrastructure, such as the Web site of the U.S. Department of Defense, is being targeted for Distributed Denial of Service attacks by cyberprotestors, according to a warning issued Friday by the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC). | | | Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, the more damaging relative of DoS attacks, are those that use multiple computers worldwide to launch their attacks and are harder to combat. |
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http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,69704,00.asp
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| | Glossary of Network Security Terms WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. |
| | A commonly-used encryption algorithm that encrypts data using a key of 56 bits, which is considered fairly weak given the speed and power of modern computers. | | | A distributed denial of service (DDoS) involves many computer systems, possibly hundreds, all sending traffic to a few choice targets. | | | The term "Denial of Service" is also used imprecisely to refer to any outwardly-induced condition that renders a computer unusable, thus "denying service" to its rightful user. |
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http://www.watchguard.com/glossary/d.asp
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| | What is DoS attack? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | The recent spate of DDoS attacks made victims not only of their Web site targets but also of the computers that hackers mind-controlled into making the attacks. | | | KnowledgeStorm: Intrusion Detection Products - Business technology search site offering software, service, reseller and hardware information on thousands of IT solutions. | | | This site hosts the CERT Coordination Center, an organization that focuses on computer security concerns for Internet users. |
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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DoS_attack.html
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| | TechWeb: TechEncyclopedia |
| | A distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack uses multiple computers throughout the network that it has previously infected. | | | The computers act as "zombies" and work together to send out bogus messages, thereby increasing the amount of phony traffic. | | | Find the latest news and information on denial of service attack from across the TechWeb Network of IT Web sites. |
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http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm?term=denialofserviceattack
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| | ONLamp.com: Preventing Denial of Service Attacks |
| | It means that when you start to look for why your Internet is slow or why people cannot download their email, remember that the source of the problem could be from any machine on your network or the Internet. | | | As developers make software more reliable and more resilient to DoS, the attack vectors have changed to target hard-to-secure parts of a service. | | | The techniques here apply equally well to FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x. |
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http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/06/24/anti_dos.html
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| | The Attacks on GRC.COM |
| | A quick query of our Cisco router showed that both of our two T1 trunk interfaces to the Internet were receiving some sort of traffic at their maximum 1.54 megabit rate, while our outbound traffic had fallen to nearly zero, presumably because valid inbound traffic was no longer able to reach our server. | | | I believe that I have learned everything there is to learn from these IRC Zombie/Bot style attacks. | | | When those insecure and maliciously potent Windows XP machines are mated to high-bandwidth Internet connections, |
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http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
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| | A9 Application Denial of Service |
| | You should particularly focus on what an unauthenticated user can do, but unless you trust all of your users, you should examine what an authenticated user can do as well. | | | For example, a site that allows unauthenticated users to request message board traffic may start many database queries for each HTTP request they receive. | | | To determine if any resources can be used to create a denial of service, you should analyze each one to see if there is a way to exhaust it. |
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http://www.owasp.org/documentation/topten/a9.html
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| | Network Security: Firewalls, Anti Virus and Anti Spam |
| | To combat viruses and spyware, Westinghouse Electric has rolled out desktop software that watches for suspicious code activity and blocks it based on behavior. | | | Stay ahead of the next computer security threat | | | Vendors and service providers unveil telework-friendly technologies More.. |
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http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html
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| | Denial of service |
| | These are collections of Java applets that consume resources in rude or malicious ways, so that either all the CPU or memory resources of your computer are consumed, or, you are tricked into thinking a dangerous attack has been launched on your computer. | | | For example, one attack displayed from Ladue's Georgia Tech site is an applet that paints huge black windows on your screen, in such a way that you can't access other parts of the screen. | | | These hostile applets are exercising what is known as a denial of service attack. |
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http://java.sun.com/sfaq/denialOfService.html
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| | PCWorld.com - Microsoft Discovers Telnet Flaw in Windows 2000 |
| | First, if attack code is run, it will only run with the level of permission given to the Telnet service. | | | Second, Telnet is not turned on by default in Windows 2000 and would have be turned on to make a system vulnerable. | | | Telnet is a common line program often used for remote access to systems. |
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http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,83283,tk,dn020802X,00.asp
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| | IT Architect Distributed Denial of Service Attacks March 1, 2000 |
| | Different code values designate different commands; for example, 345 means to start a SYN flood. | | | Before an attacker can launch a DDoS attack, he or she does have some work to do, including gaining root or administrator access to as many systems as possible. | | | Since the TFN server runs as a root, the source address may be spoofed (and most likely will be), making attacks harder to trace. |
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http://www.itarchitect.com/article/NMG20000512S0041
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| | CNN.com - Denial-of-service attacks on the rise? - April 9, 2002 |
| | The problem arises because almost all DoS attacks involve multiple networks and attack sources, many of which have spoofed IP addresses to make detection even harder, according to Ogden. | | | Terms under which this service is provided to you. | | | That process has to be repeated all the way back to every attack source. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/04/09/dos.threat.idg
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| | CNN - The denial-of-service aftermath - February 14, 2000 |
| | FBI agents focus on university, business computers as cyber-attack launch pads | | | Terms under which this service is provided to you. | | | Gary Grossman, director of security research and development at Santa Clara, Calif.-based Exodus Communications Inc., said this isn't the first denial-of-service attack directed toward his customers. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/14/dos.aftermath.idg
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| | Internet slowed by suspected denial-of-service attack |
| | Antivirus software vendor Symantec Corp. said it noticed a significant increase in scans related to the server resolution service at the same time as problems began hitting the Internet in South Korea. | | | The server resolution service provides a way for clients to query for the appropriate network endpoints to use for a particular SQL Server instance, according to Microsoft. | | | A malicious user could change the address on the incoming packet so that it appeared to come from another SQL Server. |
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http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/25/030125hnsqlnet.html?s=IDGNS
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| | How a "denial of service" attack works CNET News.com |
| | The filter can look for attacks by noticing patterns or identifiers contained in the information. | | | One of the more common methods of blocking a "denial of service" attack is to set up a filter, or "sniffer," on a network before a stream of information reaches a site's Web servers. | | | Such attacks flood a Web server with false requests for information, overwhelming the system and ultimately crashing it. |
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http://news.com.com/2100-1017-236728.html?legacy=cnet
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| | Symantec Security Response - Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks |
| | Before the attacker can launch a DDoS attack, he or she must gain full access to the computers that will be used as attack servers. | | | Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are performed from multiple attack servers, which are remotely controllable by a hacker. | | | The following picture shows an example of how Trojan-controlled "Zombies" are able to perform a DDoS attack on a victim located at the IP address 127.0.0.1: |
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http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/ddos.attacks.html
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| | New denial-of-service attack tool uses relay chat |
| | The "#b3eblebr0x" chat channel (which seems to use AT&T as its network service) is a kind of underworld IRC server - accessed through secret password only - run by hackers to use distributed denial-of-service. | | | Once done, the compromised server is forced to join an IRC channel called "#b3eblebr0x" using a special password, Rouland says. |
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2000/0906ddos.html
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| | Information Security Glossary - Denial of Service |
| | A Denial of Service (DoS)attack, is an Internet attack against a Web site whereby a client is denied the level of service expected. | | | The exploitation of a features of the TCP/IP protocol whereby large packets of data are split into 'bite sized chunks' with each fragment being identified to the next by an 'offset' marker. | | | Viruses are not usually targeted but where the host server becomes infected, it can cause a Denial of Service; or worse. |
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http://www.yourwindow.to/information-security/gl_denialofservice.htm
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| | Denial of Service |
| | I think the attack is actually going on, the provider had to move all the websites to a different server. | | | You probably won't get to read this until after it's over, but the reason you haven't been able to connect to this site is because my web hosting provider has been under a denial of service attack since the 19th of July. |
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http://www.xoltar.org/2004/jul/20/dos-attack.html
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| | Denial of Service Database |
| | If this is your first time visiting the DoS DB, please take a minute to read the following ABOUT the database. | | | For more information on Denial of Service, visit the DoS Help Desk. |
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http://attrition.org/security/denial
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| | SecuriTeam.com ™ - WinSCP Denial of Service |
| | The attacker would need the ability to convince the user to visiting a web site he controlled or opening an HTML e-mail he had prepared. | | | Vulnerability in the Client Service for NetWare Allows Remote Code Execution (MS05-046) | | | During the denial of service, WinSCP will not display any GUI. |
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http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/5OP0A1FCLE.html
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| | SecurityWarnings - Warnings |
| | Learn more about our notification service and other member benefits here. | | | A denial of service vulnerability within the debugging mechanism in Oracle 9i has been found. | | | However by enabling "Valid Node Checking" only authenticated clients can exploit the vulnerability. |
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http://www.securitywarnings.com/warnings/?id=73
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| | Computer Knowledge General Info |
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| | ZDNet - Technology Reviews and Buying Advice - ZDNet: Reviews |
| | You may have heard about VoIP, which lets you make phone calls over the Net for far less than you'd pay for regular long distance. | | | Our guide to VoIP explains how it works, how the services compare, and how to get started. | | | How the Internet can slash your phone bill |
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| | Denial-Of-Service Attacks Common |
| | "Some sites merely experience bad performance, but that's a big deal to a service provider," said Ted Julian, chief strategist at Arbor Networks, which offers a hardware/software system for countering denial- of-service attacks. | | | The study found that recent targets included Amazon.com, Microsoft's Hotmail and the White House's site. | | | The site's servers bog down while responding to the messages, and sometimes crash. |
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1242240,00.asp
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