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...
These are the words of a UK-based online bookmaker who has agreed to speak to silicon.com, on condition of anonymity, to reveal the full scale of the denial of service extortion threats that betting sites have been battling against for nine months.
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.