Tuesday, May 22, started out as just another day at CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. By day's end, CERT, widely regarded as the Fort Knox of computer security, ...
Unlike The SCO Group's Web site -- which was brought down by the original Mydoom worm, dubbed Mydoom.a -- Microsoft's site remains up and running. SCO removed its original site from the Internet's ...
Denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been around for so long that they might be considered old school compared with today’s sophisticated spear-phishing and ...
A new denial-of-service attack dubbed 'Loop DoS' targeting application layer protocols can pair network services into an indefinite communication loop that creates large volumes of traffic. Devised by ...
A newly discovered type of self-perpetuating denial-of-service (DoS) attack targeting application-layer messages has the potential to compromise 300,000 Internet hosts and can be difficult to stop ...
An optional feature issued with the fix can cause a bug rollback, making a secondary DOS issue possible on top of root-level privilege exploitation. A critical race condition bug affecting the Nvidia ...
A Romanian vulnerability researcher has discovered more than 70 flaws in combinations of cloud applications and content delivery networks (CDNs) that could be used to poison the CDN caches and result ...