Disregarding denial of service attacks, which are best tackled through concerted action by ISPs, the greatest security problem is simply the inadequate configuration of features that already exist. Systems have grown up like children who are...
Juniper has already proven that it can make Cisco work hard to defend its turf in the service provider market," said Joel Conover, an analyst at Current Analysis. A new element in the updated IOS is improved protection against denial of service...
A group of UK MPs has recommended key amendments to the 1990 Computer Misuse Act, which should now include specific reference to crimes such as denial of service attacks and related fraud, they claim.
Internet service providers (ISPs) are failing to do enough to stem the tide of denial of service attacks, phishing scams and spam email bombarding corporate networks and websites, according to UK IT chiefs.
What do you do to defend yourself against being attacked by hackers? We face distributed denial of service attacks against our website, sometimes right towards the end of our quarter. That's most different than what we faced in the last few years.
As a result, bugs such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting continue to proliferate, Fortify said. Serious security threats stemming from numerous application vulnerabilities are a direct result of poor or non-existent security processes.