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» 10 Proposed 'First-Aid' Security Measures Against Distributed Denial Of Service Attacks - Whitepaper detailing "easy and fast to implement methods to protect against those attacks." [PDF format]
» 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 Class Action Lawsuit - Organization and discussion of class-action lawsuits by victims of DDOS attacks.
» 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.
» 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 (DoS) on the Internet - Academic paper and slides on 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 No longer updated.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]
» DoShelp.com - Tools and patches to protect a person's computer from hackers, Denial of Service, and other intrusions.
» 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.
» Internet Storm Center - Slammer Worm Analysis - Detailed analysis of the Slammer worm responsible for recent widespread denial of service activities
» Magnification Attacks: smurf and fraggle - Security whitepaper describing some common magnification attacks, what they are, and how to avoid them.
» Microsoft Windows Update - Latest bugfixes for Microsoft Windows, including fixes for some possible DoS attacks.
» National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) - The National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) serves as a national critical infrastructure threat assessment, warning, vulnerability, and law enforcement investigation and response entity.
» Netscan.org - Public service which proactively scans for networks acting as smurf amplifiers.
» 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.
» Riverhead Networks - Offers managed products and services for DDoS mitigation and detection.
» 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.
» Tools Stunt DoS Attack - InternetWeek article written in the aftermath of the Denial of Service attack on Microsoft's domain name servers discusses various ways to combat these tactics.
» Trinoo Analysis - An analysis of the DoS Project's trin00 master/slave programs, which implement a distributed network denial of service tool.
» Webscreen Technology - Offers filtering appliances with DDoS mitigation features.
» 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.
» Zombie Zapper - Free, open source tool that can tell a zombie system to stop flooding. Zombie Zapper works against Trinoo, TFN, Stacheldraht, Troj_Trinoo (the trinoo daemon ported to Windows), and Shaft.