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  • YouTube outage: Pakistan fumble to blame

    YouTube goes completely black all over the world for two hours. Is the culprit a complete system failure or a sophisticated denial of service attack?

  • Hackers to target iPhone in 2008

    Its immense popularity may turn the iPhone into a painful experience for Apple, if predictions that the mobile device will be a major security target in 2008 are realised.

  • NAB floats denial-of-service threats to the cloud

    Thanks to bots and the rise of financially-driven cybercrime, the menace of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are too real to ignore -- defending against such attacks however is driving collaboration between ISPs and top tier telcos to push security to the cloud.

  • Web attackers get better at hiding

    Cybercrooks who rig Web sites to break into PCs are getting better at hiding their malicious code, a security expert said this week.

  • Worm targets Solaris telnet bug

    A computer worm is using a recently disclosed flaw in Sun Microsystems' operating system to propagate, experts have warned.

  • Death of the Internet greatly exaggerated

    Security experts downplayed media reports that an "electronic jihad" aimed at Israeli Web sites will start Thursday.

  • Blackout hits major Web sites

    A domain name outage Tuesday morning that left many popular Web sites such as Yahoo, Google, Microsoft.com and Apple.com temporarily inaccessible was the result of an Internet attack, according to Web infrastructure company Akamai.

  • Net watchers wary of Sasser fallout

    Although the damage wrought by Sasser failed to reach the levels of MSBlast and other major infections, security experts are warning that there could still be more trouble to come from the worm.

  • Squashing the next worm

    Another virus, another epidemic. What will it take for the public to patch?

  • 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.

  • eTerrorism: Assessing the infrastructure risk

    While warnings pervade government and the media, doomsday scenarios of cyberterrorism that result in massive deaths or injury remain largely the stuff of Hollywood scripts or conspiracy theory.

  • Fighting DoS attacks

    Choosing the right weapon against denial-of-service attacks is more challenging as new technologies hit the shelves. Learn how some enterprises chose solutions, and find out what tech issues came into play.

  • New weapons in the war against DoS attacks

    Industry watchdog groups are warning that denial of service attacks are becoming more destructive each year. Learn about some new tools you can add to your arsenal of DoS defenses to help safeguard your enterprise.

  • Code Red still threatens Net

    Researchers worry that computers infected by the Code Red worm, which continues to slowly spread, could be used as a ready army for cyberattack.

  • New tool camouflages hacker programs

    A new tool for manipulating packets of data that travel over the Internet could allow attackers to camouflage malicious programs just enough to bypass many intrusion-detection systems and firewalls.

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