ACM: Ubiquity - Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
Article by M. E. Kabay about the effect of DDoS attacks on major e-commerce sites, and the legal ramifications thereof. |
CERT Advisory CA-2000-01
Denial of Service developments including description, impact, and solutions. |
CERT Incident Note: DoS Attacks Using Nameservers
Description of how intruders are using nameservers to execute packet flooding denial of service attacks. |
Cisco
Strategies to protect against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. This article applies primarily to sites using Cisco equipment. |
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] |
DDoS World
Knowledge base: including news articles, white papers, and advisories. |
Deconstructing Denial of Service Attacks
How to assess risk and avoid unwitting participation in this relatively new tactic. |
Defying Denial of Service Attacks
Discussion of the main DoS methods and how to protect your PCs and servers from them. [NetworkMagazine.com] |
Denial of Service (DoS) Resource Page
Collection of articles and links about Denial of Service attacks |
Denial of Service Database
Details of many attacks: categorized by platform affected and using OSAT notation. No longer updated. |
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 (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). |
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] |
GCN.com: How to Stop a Service Denial Attack Before It Stops You
Shawn P. McCarthy provides a quick overview of various kinds of DDOS attacks. He also explains why defending against this type of attack requires upstream infrastructure providers to cooperate with the victim. |
GRC.com: Denial of Service Investigation and Exploration Pages
Analysis and investigation of the DoS threat posed by Windows XP, and reports and logs from when GRC.com was the victim of a DDoS attack. |
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. |
Important Information for Windows Users
Patches for Windows 95/98 security holes, particularly WinNuke and Sping attacks. |
Microsoft Windows Update
Latest bugfixes for Microsoft Windows, including fixes for some possible DoS attacks. |
Network Ingress Filtering
A simple, effective, and straightforward method for network administrators to prohibit DoS attacks which use forged IP addresses. |
Red Hat Linux General Security Advisory
Updated bind packages fixing DoS attack. |
Sans Institute Global Incident Analysis Center
Special notice and analysis of Rootkit/Smurf Payload Toolkit v 1.1. |
SecurityFocus
Site maintains an extensive database of vunerabilities and solutions including Denial Of Service attacks. |
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. |
Smurf Attack Information
White paper describing and giving information on how to minimize the effects of smurf attacks. |
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. |
UDP DoS attacks
A malicious Java-based applet can keep Windows users from accessing Domain Name Servers on the Web. |
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. |
