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Large percentage of websites vulnerable to HashDoS denial of service attack

29

Dec

2011

Researchers presented information on a long standing vulnerability in most web application frameworks at today’s 28c3 (28th Chaos Communication Congress) security conference in Berlin, Germany, Earth, Milky Way. Alexander “alech” Klink and Julian “zeri” Walde delivered a demonstration and lecture titled “Efficient Denial of Service Attacks on Web Application Platforms”. In their lecture they explained […]

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Firewalls Can’t Keep up With DDoS Attacks

13

Nov

2011

Companies still rely heavily on firewalls to defend themselves against denial-of-service attacks despite the fact that this class of device is often not up to the task, a new survey by F5 Networks has found. The survey of 1000 medium and large organizations in ten countries found that up to 45 percent of respondents experience […]

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Half of all spam is relayed via Asian computers

01

Nov

2011

Do you take enough care over your personal computer? Have you kept it up-to-date with the latest anti-virus software and security patches? Those are the kinds of questions you have to ask yourself if you want to avoid contributing to the “Dirty Dozen”, Sophos’s regular research into the countries which are relaying the most spam […]

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