Denial of Service Links
- Deconstructing Denial of Service Attacks How to assess risk and avoid unwitting participation in this relatively new tactic.
- Technotronic.com A Web page with links to tools and information about how to prevent various denial of service attacks
- Fighting the Cybercrime Power TheStandard's article about nineteen high-tech giants, including Microsoft, HP and Oracle, and their creation of a nonprofit to battle cybercriminals.
- Nuke Information and Patches Specific information for each attack, including smurf, ICMP flood, WinNuke, and ssping.
- Sans Institute Global Incident Analysis Center Special notice and analysis of Rootkit/Smurf Payload Toolkit v 1.1.
- Denial of Service Help Page Advice for victims of Denial Of Service Attacks, geared towards users of IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
- Distributed Denial of Service Attacks A DDOS exploit multiplies the disruptive power of denial of service attacks. The article discusses methods used and how to detect them. [NetworkMagazine.com]
- DoShelp.com Tools and patches to protect a person's computer from hackers, Denial of Service, and other intrusions.
- Trinoo Analysis An analysis of the DoS Project's trin00 master/slave programs, which implement a distributed network denial of service tool.
- Whatis Definition of Denial of Service Definition plus discussion of various types of DoS attacks and how they work, including Buffer Overflow, SYN, Teardrop and Smurf.
- Cisco Strategies to protect against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. This article applies primarily to sites using Cisco equipment.
- Microsoft Windows Update Latest bugfixes for Microsoft Windows, including fixes for some possible DoS attacks.
- UDP DoS attacks A malicious Java-based applet can keep Windows users from accessing Domain Name Servers on the Web.
- DDoS Is Neither Dead Nor Forgotten How DDoS attacks have developed over the past year, and what has been learned; preparation is essential to prevention. [NetworkMagazine.com]
- Defying Denial of Service Attacks Discussion of the main DoS methods and how to protect your PCs and servers from them. [NetworkMagazine.com]
- Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks and Tools A bibliography of recent papers and advisories on DDoS attacks and tools, by David Dittrich of the University of Washington (USA).
- PC Magazine: PC Tech ZDNet's lengthy article about various DoS attacks and preventative and fixative steps to take.
- Network Ingress Filtering A simple, effective, and straightforward method for network administrators to prohibit DoS attacks which use forged IP addresses.
- Tools Stunt DoS Attack InternetWeek article written in the aftermath of the Denial of Service attack on Microsoft's domain name servers discusses various ways to combat these tactics.
- Hacking the DoS An interview on hacking and denial of service attacks with Brian Martin and David Dittrich. Available in text and various forms of audio.
- Smurf Amplifier Registry The SAR lets you probe Internet connected IP networks to see whether or not they are configured in a way that will allow perpetrators to use them for smurf amplification.
- Update to Windows 95 TCP/IP to Address Out-of-Band Issue Microsoft's official communique on the WinNuke bug, and their solution.
- Internet Security Systems A description of a SNORK attack and a link to a patch.
- SecurityFocus Site maintains an extensive database of vunerabilities and solutions including Denial Of Service attacks.
- Denial of Service Attacks Methods by which one can be prepared for DoS attacks and fight back.
- Denial of Service (DoS) Resource Page Collection of articles and links about Denial of Service attacks
- Red Hat Linux General Security Advisory Updated bind packages fixing DoS attack.
- Important Information for Windows Users Patches for Windows 95/98 security holes, particularly WinNuke and Sping attacks.
- Smurf Attack Information White paper describing and giving information on how to minimize the effects of smurf attacks.
- CERT Advisory CA-2000-01 Denial of Service developments including description, impact, and solutions.
- Stacheldraht Analysis An analysis of "stacheldraht", a distributed denial of service attack tool, based on source code from the "Tribe Flood Network" distributed denial of service attack tool.
- RFC 2267 - Network Ingress Filtering Defeating denial of service attacks which employ IP source address spoofing.
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