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  • Net attack damage report

    A denial-of-service attack on the Net's root servers fizzles out. A look at what happened, what didn't and why.

  • New Trojan may have VeriSign in crosshairs

    Sophos anti-virus has confirmed that it is in the preliminary stages of analysing a new Trojan that may be linked to an organised attack on Verisign's domain name servers.

  • DoubleClick quiet over DoS attack

    Digital marketing and advertising company DoubleClick is staying tight-lipped about a denial of service (DoS) attack that hobbled its online ad-serving operation for four hours overnight.

  • DDoS attack cripples Uecomm's AU links

    A crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack battered the Internet last evening, knocking several Uecomm links offline.

  • Denial of service glitch could threaten Windows

    Security researchers have published details of a denial-of-service vulnerability which could allow hackers to attack Microsoft Windows and spin computers into senseless processing loops.

  • Samba servers vulnerable to DoS attacks

    The Samba Team released on Tuesday a patch to fix two flaws that could result in disruptions for networks using the widely installed Unix and Linux software.

  • Phishers using DNS servers to lure victims

    Online thieves looking for personal data may be moving to more active measures by redirecting people from legitimate sites to malicious ones, security experts said this week.

  • Defending the DNS

    The domain name system was designed to distribute authority, making organisations literally "masters of their own domain." But with this mastery comes the responsibility of contributing to the defense of the DNS.

  • Aussie spam black-list goes to paid subscriptions

    One of Australia's leading spam blacklists will move to a subscription-only model.

  • Denial of service attack causes huge domain outage

    The knock down of up to 600,000 websites of MyDomain.com and NamesDirect.com customers this week was caused by a massive Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

  • Chinese hackers back off from CNN attack

    Late last week, leaders of a group of Chinese hackers called off a planned denial of service attack on CNN.com, after it was reported on the same day that the attack would occur over the weekend, in protest at "anti-Chinese" media across the Western world.

  • Chinese hackers disable CNN.com for three hours

    CNN.com was knocked offline for three hours shortly after Chinese hackers claimed to have called off a planned denial of service attack against the US publisher.

  • US Homeland Security wants a cyber-nuclear bomb

    The US wants to help defend against cyber attacks by embarking on a project that would build the equivalent of an online nuclear bomb.

  • US military to use network warfare to break enemy

    The special US cyber attack unit US Air Force Cyber Command will use network warfare such as denial of service and confidential data loss as stage one of a physical attack to soften an enemy's defences, according to a senior US general.

  • Escalating DoS attacks may 'shut down the Internet'

    Denial-of-service attacks are growing faster than bandwidth is being added to the Internet, according to VeriSign, the company that administers the .com domain.

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