Sun Microsystems' Grid, a publicly available computing service, was hit by a denial-of-service network attack on its inaugural day, the company said on Wednesday.
A flaw that could cause denial-of-service attacks on Research In Motion's BlackBerry handheld devices has been discovered.
While SCO's technical staff worked at dodging MyDoom's assault on the company's Web site, their CEO Darl McBride was experiencing a denial of service attack at a much closer range.
Australian Uecomm customers were frustrated by two hours of intermittent service today, as malicious hackers flooded the network with spurious traffic.
Security researchers have been infiltrating denial of service 'botnets' to study what may be an unstoppable Distributed Denial of Service (DoS) technique.
Botnet operators have become public enemy number-one as consumers, businesses and governments fall foul to identity theft, DDoS attacks and spam. Yet no one appears to be able to stop the spread of bots -- except maybe the media.
Security researchers have been infiltrating denial of service 'botnets' to study what may be an unstoppable Distributed Denial of Service (DoS) technique.
The software giant eliminates the Windowsupdate.com address that the self-propagating MSBlast worm was set to attack.
Plans are afoot to attack spammers by launching the kind of cyber-attack favoured by organised crime and hackers with an axe to grind.
Security experts warn that code which could be used to attack and crash Cisco routers has been posted to public mailing lists.
help/how to One of the favourite tricks that hackers like to use is to flood a targeted system with traffic, which results in a Denial of Service (DoS). Here are some registry edits that you can use to defend Win2K systems against DoS attacks.
In 2002, users and companies got a respite from the disruptive viruses of 2001. But a more sophisticated generation of worms is on the way.
Apple Computer on Tuesday in the US released an update for its Mac OS X that repairs several security flaws and includes feature updates.
Microsoft has released four security advisories to fix security holes, the most serious of which could allow an attacker to take over the database functions of the company's SQL Server 2000.
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