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DDoS Attack Graphs from Russia vs Georgia's Cyberattacks

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2008-10-15 15:01:58 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...actual peaks were higher The attacks mainly consisted of HTTP queries to the http://mfa.gov.ge website. These were requests for the main page script with randomly generated parameters. These requests were generated to overload the web server in a way where every single request would need significant CPU time. The initial wave of the attack...
 
Tags: georgia, attacks, georgia cyber attacks, attack, georgia cyber attack, ddos attack, russian cyber attacks, graphs, russia
 
 
 
 
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The Russia vs Georgia Cyber Attack

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2008-08-11 19:35:55 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...actual impact of the cyber attack so far - " Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress Whos behind it? The infamous Russian Business Network, or literally every Russian supporting Russias actions? How coordinated and planned the cyber attack is, and do we actually have a relatively decent example of cyber warfare combining...
 
Tags: georgia cyber attack, cyber attack, attack, georgia, georgia president, russian, russian web, ddos attack, russian hackers
 
 
 
 
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Red Herring Fallacies: The Straw Man Argument

2008-08-07 09:40:11 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...actual view but is easier to refute. Then, in counterpoint, the debating partner attributes an easily refutable position to the opponent (for example, deliberately overstating the opponents position). Wikipedia says 1. Person A has position X 2. Person B ignores X and instead presents position Y Y is a distorted version of X and can be set up...
 
Tags: position, defend position, easily refutable position, opponents position, position simply, position poorly, cep engine, cep, attacks position
 
 
 
 
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Streaming SQL Approaches Insist in Ignoring Causality by PatternStorm

2008-09-05 14:25:35 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...actual limitations of these two Streaming SQL languages) it is also true that the generalization is closer to being overly complex than natural and intuitive The root cause behind the actual limitations of these two Streaming SQL languages is that their execution models hardcode the way events can be related to each other: in the Oracle case...
 
Tags: sql, sql approaches insist, cars stream, stream, average speed event, event, sql languages, languages, cars event
 
 
 
 
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Diminutive XSS Worm Contest Drama and Status Update

2008-01-06 17:34:38 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...actual XSS propagation, for which there has been little research done to date Ive always said, you dont understand a problem until you see it and play with it. This is why having experience is always more valuable than schooling in a topic. Its like trying to get in a fist fight with a professional boxer having never sparred before and...
 
Tags: browser companies, browser, browser security arena, code, people visit, people, worm code, diminutive xss worm, xss worm
 
 
 
 
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Kn1ghtl0rd and Lowtek Mystik's RFID 2.0 PhreakNIC Presentation

2007-09-21 05:05:54 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...actual circuitry of an RFID tag and what it takes to make them operate more consistently. The presentation will also cover actual tag data and coding schemes with standardization including EPC Gen 2 and other ISO standards such as PayPass RFID enabled credit cards. There will be reader/writer demonstrations as well as other proof of concept...
 
Tags: rfid, presentation, paypass rfid, rfid tag, lowtek mystik, readerwriter demonstrations, buddies kn1ghtl0rd, communication types, concept demonstrations
 
 
 
 
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Moto Q9 DoS and Fingerprinting

2008-01-12 18:10:21 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...actual device type! So then I turn the setting to desktop computer it turns to Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Opera 8.65 [en] UP.Link/6.3.1.17.0. Okay, fair enough, that appears to be the more secure setting as at least it doesnt say the revision and model number of the phone That is, of course, until you look at the...
 
Tags: accept language, accept, devcap, devcap charset, devcap numsoftkeys, accept charset, devcap screenpixels, cell phone hacker, phone
 
 
 
 
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Measuring Vulnerability

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2008-04-14 14:31:38 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...actual tornado data In order to determine the probability of being vulnerable, wed use a Monte Carlo function to Take a random value from the tornado distribution and from the structural resistance distribution Compare the values i.e., for this iteration, determine whether wind speed was greater than resistance If wind speed was greater,...
 
Tags: threat capability curve, capability, human capability, human threat capability, describe control strength, control strength, capability curve, threat community capability, control
 
 
 
 
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The War on Photography

2008-06-05 06:44:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...actual movies and television shows. These movie plots resonate in our minds and in the minds of others we talk to. And many of us get scared Terrorists taking pictures is a quintessential detail in any good movie. Of course it makes sense that terrorists will take pictures of their targets. They have to do reconnaissance, don't they? We need...
 
Tags: movie, movie-plot security, terrorists, imagine terrorists, terrorists bomb, movie-plot terrorists, dix terrorists, movie-plot threats uniquely, wannabe terrorists
 
 
 
 
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So, you think youve removed that sensitive data (part II)