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CrunchGear Reviews the Samsung SC-MX20: $250 HD Camcorder
John Biggs Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:58:13 -0000
At $249, the Samsung SC-MX20 falls delicately between cheap flash-based camcorders and more expensive hard drive-based camcorders. It strips down some features that may not be necessary in the first place – high definition video, still photos, etc. – but adds something that most less expensive flash camcorders don’t have: an optical zoom. A big optical zoom, too, at 34x. That, coupled with long battery life, user-friendly codec support, and relatively low price make the SC-MX20 a winner.
MySpace And HP Team Up To Help You Print Out Those Drunken Photos
Jason Kincaid Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:00:33 -0000
MySpace has partnered with computer giant Hewlett-Packard to introduce a number of new print options to the popular social networking site. Beginning in November, users will be able to click an HP-branded "Print" box embedded on their MySpace pages to access a printer-friendly version of any portion of their profile that can be printed from their home printer. The announcement was made today by MySpace co-founder and CEO Chris DeWolfe and HP EVP of Imaging and Printing Vyomesh Joshi at HP's Imaging and Printing Conference in San Diego. Being able to print anything seems a little excessive - I can't imagine wanting to print out anyone's MySpace profile, and running promotions to print across the entire site isn't very green either. I wonder if MySpace's official Green site Our Planet will include the Print widget, too.
Facebook Rolls Out Live Search…Wait, Where’d It Go? Oh, There It Is.
Mark Hendrickson Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:00:14 -0000
Update: Web search is now back, as is Facebook's post about it. See our observations below. It's been a long time coming, but it appears as though Facebook finally has begun integrating Live Search into its main search bar, thereby providing web search in addition to its preexisting profile search capabilities. The functionality appeared earlier today for users, only to disappear again. Facebook published an official post about it only to take that down as well . Microsoft's own post, however, can still be found here.
Mozilla Geode Released With Support From Pownce and Fire Eagle
Mark Hendrickson Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:51:38 -0000
Mozilla has posted more information about Geode, the Labs plugin we foreshadowed yesterday that helps websites detect your current location. Geode is also now available for download here. Geode is a forerunner to Firefox's future implementation of the W3C Geolocation Specification, a standard that (once universally implemented) will allow websites to serve up localized content and services within any browser. Mozilla plans to let the user determine how they want to reveal their location (via GPS, WiFi, manual entry, or other methods) and how specific they want that information to be (exact location, neighborhood, city, etc).
Google Reminds You That Knol Exists With New Policy Debates
Jason Kincaid Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:25:09 -0000
Google launched Knol, a monetizable Wikipedia, last July, and since then most people seem to have either forgotten about it entirely or decided that it will never be as good as its Wiki predecessor. Today the site is launching a new section called Knol Debates, and while I don't think it will ever get me to use the site as a reference encyclopedia, it's a great idea. Google has brought together economists from the Cato Institute and the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) who have written their opinions regarding the current economic climate. Users are encouraged to participate in the conversation by leaving their comments, reviews, and suggested modifications to the original arguments. Google is also allowing users to vote on future topics for Knol debates with its recently launched Google Moderator tool. For more information, check out the announcement on Google's official blog.
ZoomProspector Launches To The Public To Help Businesses Relocate
Jason Kincaid Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:00:41 -0000
ZoomProspector, the free site that allows businesses to search nationwide for the best places to relocate, has launched to the public. When we first introduced the site in April, we likened it to a Zillow for businesses. ZoomProspector rates cities across the country by a number of relevant criteria, including proximity to airports, commute times, demographics, or the availability of venture capital in the area (you can also choose to exclude some of these items if they aren't important to you). One of the more useful search functions is the ability to see what other businesses operate in the vicinity, so businesses can determine if they're going to be working close to a competitor, or even a potential client. Once a business has found an appropriate city, it can view individual properties that have been added by real estate agents.

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BlackBerry Storm Could Hit Tomorrow
Should Apple batten down the hatches? The newest Blackberry will feature touchscreen, an app store and other features designed to give the iPhone a run for its money.
Technical Analysis: It's the Uptick Rule, Stupid
An SEC decision in July 2007 could well be contributing to the current financial crisis.
AMD a Rare Gainer as Stocks Plunge Again
But even AMD's big early gains faded as global financial fears continue to spread.

 

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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 - Denial of Service developments including description, impact, and solutions.

CERT Incident Note: DoS Attacks Using Nameservers - Description of how intruders use name servers to execute packet flooding denial of service attacks.

500 Cisco - Strategies to protect against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. This article applies primarily to sites using Cisco equipment.

404 DDoS Detection Research (IDS, SYN, DRDoS, TFN2K) - An academic research paper on DDoS detection including attack simulation based on TFN2K, detection platform and analysis. [Requires PowerPoint]

404 DDoS Is Neither Dead Nor Forgotten - February 1991 article on state of DDoS attacks, and what has been learned to that point.
Meta Description: [ Enterprise product reviews, comparisons, analysis and advice built by IT professionals for IT professionals. ]

DDoS World - Knowledge base: including news articles, white papers, and advisories.

Defeating DDoS - An illustrated white paper describing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack methodology and prevention.
Meta Description: [ 10th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW10) Refereed Papers. ]

404 Defying Denial of Service Attacks - Discussion of the main DoS methods and how to protect your PCs and servers from them. [NetworkMagazine.com]
Meta Description: [ Enterprise product reviews, comparisons, analysis and advice built by IT professionals for IT professionals. ]

Denial of Service (DoS) on the Internet - Academic paper and slides on Denial of Service attacks.

Denial of Service (DoS) Resource Page - Collection of articles and links about Denial of Service attacks

500 Denial of Service attacks and countermeasures - Presentation notes and illustrations on denial of service attacks and countermeasures given at the University of Rome La Sapienza

Denial of Service Attacks White Papers, Webcasts and Product Information from Top IT Vendors - Research the latest Denial of Service Attacks technologies, tools and techniques. Read white papers, case studies, webcasts and product information from multiple vendors.
Meta Description: [ Bitpipe.com's topic page containing Denial of Service Attacks information, webcasts, white papers and more. ]

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)
Meta Description: [ Denial of service attacks - defensive patches and information. ]

Denial-of-service attack - Description of DDoS and prevention resources from Wikipedia Encyclopedia.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks/tools - Link resources for understanding, diagnosing and preventing DDoS attacks.

Distributed Denial of Service - Protecting Critical Systems - White paper describing and giving detailed information on distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and prevention and intervention methods. Illustrated.

404 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]
Meta Description: [ Enterprise product reviews, comparisons, analysis and advice built by IT professionals for IT professionals. ]

DoShelp.com - Tools and patches to protect a person's computer from hackers, Denial of Service, and other intrusions.
Meta Description: [ We help you with computer security needs. We also have alot of information about internet Scams/Fraud. Here you will find hardware and software firewalls,anti-virus and trojan removal tools. ]

GCN.com: How to Stop a Service Denial Attack Before It Stops You - Shawn P. McCarthy provides a quick overview of various kinds of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. He also explains why defending against this type of attack requires upstream infrastructure providers to cooperate with the victim.
Meta Description: [ It's not easy to defend a federal Web server against distributed service denial attacks, but it's not impossible either. ]

GRC.com: Denial of Service Investigation and Exploration Pages - Analysis and investigation of the denial of service threat posed by Windows XP, and reports and logs from when GRC.com was the victim of a DDoS attack.
Meta Description: [ The Anatomy of a Distributed Denial of Service Attack. ]

Magnification Attacks: smurf and fraggle - Security white paper describing some common magnification (smurf) attacks, what they are, and how to avoid them.
Meta Description: [ Beer, rants and boot sectors. Fresh every Tuesday. ]

Microsoft Windows Update - Latest bug fixes for Microsoft Windows, including fixes for some possible DoS attacks.
Meta Description: [ The Microsoft Windows Update Consumer site provides critical updates, security fixes, software downloads, and Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL) device drivers for your Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser. ]

Netabusechat - Discussion about internet abuses and vulnerabilities, email spams, spyware and Trojan horses alert, and virus alert.
Meta Description: [ Place to discuss and seek help on internet security, abuses and vulnerabilities. ]

Network Ingress Filtering - A simple, effective, and straightforward method for network administrators to prohibit DoS attacks which use forged IP addresses.
Meta Description: [ RFC 2267 - Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing ]

Protecting Networks from DoS Attacks - Solution paper on the use of bandwidth management to protect networks from distributed denial of service attacks and malicious traffic.
Meta Description: [ Allot Communications provides intelligent IP service optimization solutions based on deep packet inspection (DPI) technology to the world's leading broadband service providers and enterprises. ]

404 Sans Institute Global Incident Analysis Center - Special notice and analysis of Rootkit/Smurf Payload Toolkit v 1.1.
Meta Description: [ The SANS Institute, offering computer security training for system administrators, computer security professionals, and network administrators, is a cooperative research and education organization that has many consensus projects to return computer security information to the community. ]

SecurityFocus - Site maintains an extensive database of vulnerabilities and solutions including Denial Of Service attacks.
Meta Description: [ SecurityFocus is designed to facilitate discussion on computer security related topics, create computer security awareness, and to provide the Internet's largest and most comprehensive database of computer security knowledge and resources to the public. It also hosts the BUGTRAQ mailing list. ]

Smurf Amplifier Registry - The Smurf Amplifier Registry (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 providing practical 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.

404 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.

Understanding Denial-of-Service Attacks - A brief overview on identifying DoS attacks from the US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Response Team).

Webscreen Technology - Offers filtering appliances with DDoS mitigation features.
Meta Description: [ Webscreen Technology offer new-generation internet security solutions to protect your business or organisation. Our first product is the WS100 with CHARM technology. The WS100 defends your website form a Distributed Denial of Service attack by learning the behaviour of its users ]

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.
Meta Description: [ On the Internet, a denial of service (DoS) attack is an incident in which a user or organization is deprived of the services of a resource they would normally expect to have. ]

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.