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A better DOS than DOS and a better Windows than Windows

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2008-04-17 20:36:34 by HASH0x8b37820 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...DOS apps on OS/2, we can run them better. They could, but at the end of the day they were still Windows and DOS apps and this gave Microsoft an inherent advantage that could not be overcome I was reminded of this today while reading an article in eWeek by Joe Wilcox on how Microsoft is in so much trouble and how no body is using Vista (better...
 
Tags: windows, joe wilcox miss, joe, real windows, windows market, microsoft, microsoft server products, wilcox, microsoft exchange
 
 
 
 
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A better DOS than DOS and a better Windows than Windows

2008-04-17 21:33:39 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...DOS apps on OS/2, we can run them better. They could, but at the end of the day they were still Windows and DOS apps and this gave Microsoft an inherent advantage that could not be overcome I was reminded of this today while reading an article in eWeek by Joe Wilcox on how Microsoft is in so much trouble and how nobody is using Vista (better...
 
Tags: windows, joe wilcox miss, joe, real windows, windows market, microsoft, microsoft server products, wilcox, microsoft exchange
 
 
 
 
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DoS attack prevents access to WordPress.com blogs

2008-02-19 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b20fe0 in Network World on Security
 
The WordPress.com blog-hosting service suffered a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that began Saturday and was still preventing users from logging in or posting to their blogs on Tuesday Fundamental Principles of Network Security Advertisement Protect the organization. Learn the 'Need To Know' aspects of network security. Free paper from APC
 
Tags: network security, attack, blogs, wordpress, dos, fundamental principles, free paper, advertisement, protect
 
 
 
 
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Amazon Sites Under DoS?

2008-06-10 14:27:19 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...DoS as a possible culprit From vnunet The company is remaining tight-lipped on what is causing the problems, so speculation is rife in the blogosphere One explanation, according to security experts, is that Amazon is suffering a series of denial-of-service attacks Amazons US website was unavailable for over two hours on Friday, as was the...
 
Tags: amazons website, narus, amazons, firm narus, website, network attack, attack, chinese governments rely, internet movie database
 
 
 
 
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Responsible-ish Disclosure

2008-05-08 20:50:57 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
 
...DoS vulnerability they had discovered. His specific gripe was that they provided an IDA Pro excerpt that showed where the vulnerability was triggered. The excerpt is short, so Ill even copy/paste it here text:00405C1B mov esi, [ebp+dwLen] ; Our value from packet ... .text:00405C20 push edi .text:00405C21 test esi, esi ; Check value != 0 ......
 
Tags: text, esi, 00405c1b mov esi, ecx, 00405c31 push esi, 00405c3e mov ecx, recent dos vulnerability, vulnerability, 00405c21 test esi
 
 
 
 
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A Chinese DIY Multi-Feature Malware

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2008-05-08 07:56:02 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...DoS tools, the most recent case demonstrates their capabilities to code and release such DoS tools on demand. For instance, excluding a popular in China DIY malware with custom DDoS capabilities , the rest of the tools were released for this particular campaign Furthermore, in between the average password stealers , and DIY malware droppers...
 
Tags: malware, chinese, china diy malware, chinese underground, source malware, diy malware kit, chinese hacktivists, tools, dos tools
 
 
 
 
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AT&T security guru talks DoS attacks, tomorrows hackers

2008-09-05 00:00:00 by Jon Brodkin in Network World on Security
 
AT&T CSO Edward Amoroso lists his biggest security challenges: protecting sensitive information and defending against denial-of-service attacks
 
Tags: attacks, sensitive information, security challenges
 
 
 
 
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Malicious Facebook Application Might Create A Powerful DoS Botnet

2008-09-06 03:26:08 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) have built a malicious Facebook application as an experiment to demonstrate the possible dangers of social networking applications. The proof-of-concept Facebook application can covertly herd users of the popular social network into a powerful botnet that might be malicious. The demo...
 
Tags: malicious facebook application, facebook application, malicious, social, popular social network, covertly herd users, powerful botnet, computer science, demo application
 
 
 
 
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Exaggerating Timing Attack Results Via GET Flooding

2007-12-10 04:04:33 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...DoS and this appears to be one of them - at least in theory
 
Tags: server load, server, requests, practical applications, time, bandwidth latency, url, times versus, difference
 
 
 
 
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PrincipalPermissionAttribute and Static ctor Leads to DoS