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White Papers
A Spamicity Approach to Web Spam Detection
Jan 2008
Web spam which refers to any deliberate actions bringing to selected web pages an unjustifiable favorable relevance or importance is one of the major obstacles for high quality information...
Provided by Simon Fraser University
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White Papers
Fighting Spam With the NeighborhoodWatch DHT
Jan 2009
This paper presents DHTBL, an anti-spam blacklist built upon a novel secure Distributed Hash Table (DHT). They show how DHTBL can be used to replace existing DNS-based Blacklists (DNSBLs) of IP...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
Using Language Models for Spam Detection in Social Bookmarking
Aug 2008
This paper describes the approach to the spam detection task of the 2008 ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge. Their approach focuses on the use of language models and is based on the intuitive notion...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Exploring Linguistic Features for Web Spam Detection: A Preliminary Study
Apr 2008
This paper studies the usability of linguistic features in the Web spam classification task. The features were computed on two Web spam corpora: Webspam-Uk2006 and Webspam-Uk2007, they make them...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Intrusion Defense Firewall: Network-Level HIPS at the Endpoint
Oct 2008
Mobile computers that connect directly to the Internet outside of a company's firewall can introduce risk into the corporate network and thus require a higher level of security to protect against...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
Mail Defense Against Spam Via a Scheme of Distributed Merit Accumulation
Jan 2009
Infringement of privacy and denial of service attacks can take various forms. Coercing unsolicited emails upon an individual or an organisation is one of those not so obvious forms. Their approach...
Provided by University of Western Sydney
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Whitepapers
Malware Detection Using Data Mining Techniques
Jun 2012
Anti-virus systems traditionally use signatures to detect malicious executables, but signatures are over fitted features that are of little use in machine learning. Other methods seek to utilize...
Provided by Kurukshetra University
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White Papers
Denial of Service Attacks and the Emergence of Intrusion Prevention Systems
Nov 2007
In an age of political unrest and war, the internet is being used as a source of constant communication and even attack. Since 2000, Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service...
Provided by tylerAreber.com
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Webcasts
Are Spyware and Phishing Secretly Compromising Your Network?
Jan 2009
Spyware and phishing are quickly becoming the most costly online threats for organizations across all industries. In fact, by 2010, 70% of all IT security incidents will be spyware-related. By...
Provided by Symantec
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Webcasts
Combat Spyware Effectively Before It Infiltrates Your Network
Jan 2009
While less visible to users than spam and virus attacks, Spyware constitutes a serious and increasing threat to enterprise networks. Silently installed Spyware can subject the company and...
Provided by Finjan
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Webcasts
How Does the State of Spam Affect Your Small Business?
Aug 2009
Spammers use popular events to cover their tracks?. The recent death of Michael Jackson and its subsequent public interest show that spammers are willing to use any notable event as a cover to...
Provided by Symantec
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Case Studies
Georgia Department of Human Resources Relies on McAfee to Protect Against Incoming Spam and Malware
Apr 2009
The Georgia Department of Human Resources is the state's largest agency with 19,000 employees in 159 counties. It provides health and social services to the state's citizens. It needed to manage...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
Abtran Meets Its Clients' Increasing Security Requirements With McAfee Security Risk Management Solutions
Feb 2009
Abtran is a market leader in delivering Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). Its focus is on strategic, mutually beneficial partnerships with major corporate and government clients in domestic and...
Provided by McAfee
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Webcasts
Gartner Presentation: Combating the Rising Tide of Web-Borne Threats
Jan 2009
Companies should be implementing something that goes beyond what they are doing now, that actually filters malware within the Internet Gateway. Hackers are not just interested in sending one virus...
Provided by Aladdin Knowledge Systems
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White Papers
Denial of Service Attacks in Networks With Tiny Buffers
Apr 2009
Recently, several papers have studied the possibility of shrinking buffer sizes in Internet core routers to just a few dozen packets under certain constraints. If proven right, these results can...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
DDoS Protection Service: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
Oct 2008
Since the early days of the Internet, "Denial-of-service" (DoS) attacks have been a fact of life. The goal of these attacks is to restrict on a grand scale the availability of certain online...
Provided by Swisscom
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White Papers
Empirical Study of Tolerating Denial-of-Service Attacks With the Fosel Architecture
Jul 2009
Filtering techniques are one of the main approaches to protect applications from Denial of Service Attacks (DoS). However filtering techniques suffer from two main challenges: the accuracy...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Inputs of Coma: Static Detection of Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities
Apr 2009
As networked systems grow in complexity, they are increasingly vulnerable to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks involving resource exhaustion. A single malicious input of coma can trigger...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
A Case Study: Using Architectural Features to Improve Sophisticated Denial-of-Service Attack Detections
Jan 2009
Application features such as port numbers are used by Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs) to detect attacks coming from networks. System calls and the operating system related...
Provided by Louisiana State University
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White Papers
Game Theoretic Resistance to Denial of Service Attacks Using Hidden Difficulty Puzzles
Jul 2009
Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerabilities are one of the major concerns in today's Internet. Client-puzzles offer a good mechanism to defend servers against DoS attacks. This paper introduces the...
Provided by Anna University
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White Papers
Mitigating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Multiparty Applications in the Presence of Clock Drifts
Jul 2008
A weak point in network-based applications is that they commonly open some known communication port(s), making themselves targets for Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Considering adversaries that...
Provided by Chalmers University of Technology
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White Papers
Denial-of-Service Attacks on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
Feb 2008
Cognitive radio technologies have emerged as a platform to solve the problem of spectrum scarcity for wireless applications since cognitive radios have the potential to utilize the idle licensed...
Provided by Stevens Institute of Technology
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White Papers
The Early Detection of DDoS Based on the Persistent Increment Feature of the Traffic Volume
Dec 2007
One of the major threats to cyber security is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. This paper proposes a new algorithm based on the persistent increment tendency of DDoS traffic. The...
Provided by Polytechnic University
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White Papers
A Principle of a Data Synthesizer for Performance Test of Anti-DDOS Flood Attacks
Mar 2008
Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDOS) flood attacks remain a big issue in network security. Real events of DDOS flood attacks show that an attacked site (e.g., server) usually may not be...
Provided by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Whitepapers
Q1 2009 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Report
May 2009
Contained within the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) report for the first Quarter (Q1) of 2009 are news items regarding noteworthy cyber attacks and botnets, the individuals or organizations...
Provided by VeriSign
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Case Studies
ALC Maintains System Integrity With Tripwire Configuration Control Solutions
Jul 2009
Since 1976, the Atlantic Lottery Corporation (ALC) has been contributing to Atlantic Canada's economy and way of life by generating significant revenue on behalf of the governments of Nova Scotia,...
Provided by Tripwire
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Case Studies
Leibniz Computing Center Delivers IT Innovation to Its 100,000 Users With F5's BIG-IP Solution
Jan 2008
The Leibniz Computing Center in Munich, Germany provides general IT services for Munich's universities and for the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The challenge was to handle...
Provided by F5 Networks
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White Papers
An Interval Decision Diagram Based Firewall
Jan 2009
This paper explores the use of Interval Decision Diagrams (IDDs) as the central structure of a firewall packet filtering mechanism. This is done by first relating the packet filtering problem to...
Provided by Aalborg University
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White Papers
An MTIDD Based Firewall: Using Decision Diagrams for Packet Filtering
Jan 2009
This paper explores the use of Multi-Terminal Interval Decision Diagrams (MTIDDs) as the central structure of a firewall packet filtering mechanism. This is done by first relating the packet...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Associating the Authentication and Connection-Establishment Phases in Passive Authorization Techniques
Jul 2008
Port Knocking and Single Packet Authorization (SPA) are passive authorization techniques that provide firewall-level authentication to ensure authorized access to potentially vulnerable network...
Provided by National University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Firewall Implementation and Testing
May 2009
Almost every machine on the internet today is protected by a firewall. Many of them are misconfigured which is seldom discovered due to poor testing. This paper summarizes the experiences in...
Provided by Linkopings universitet
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White Papers
Towards Complete Node Enumeration in a Peer-to-Peer Botnet
Mar 2009
Modern advanced botnets may employ a decentralized peer-to-peer overlay network to bootstrap and maintain their command and control channels, making them more resilient to traditional mitigation...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Finding an Optimized Discriminate Function for Internet Application Recognition
Jun 2009
Everyday the usages of the Internet increase and simply a world of the data become accessible. Network providers do not want to let the provided services to be used in harmful or terrorist...
Provided by Amirkabir University of Technology
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White Papers
Comparing Industry Leading Anti-Spam Services
Mar 2009
The following analysis summarizes the spam catch and false positive rates of the leading anti-spam vendors. Compiled by Opus One, an independent research firm, this report provides data to...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Stopping Spam in Higher Education
Aug 2008
The rise in spam is a pain point for everyone involved. Student and faculty users, most of who are already pressed for time, must spend additional energy sifting through unwanted messages to make...
Provided by IronPort Systems
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White Papers
Malware in Email
Aug 2009
Email is known to be one of the most popular infection vectors. Besides malicious programs attached to messages, email is linked to other threats such as phishing and messages containing links to...
Provided by Borderware Technologies
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White Papers
ReputationAuthority: Your First Line of Defense
Aug 2009
Commonly, spammers and unknown solicitors send email to a local domain, domains that match destination or IP address, looking for a valid email address. Once the spammer receives confirmation of...
Provided by Borderware Technologies
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White Papers
Considerations for Anti-Spyware Product Testing
Apr 2008
This paper outlines some of the considerations that should be taken into account when tests on anti-spyware products are conducted and reviewed. Tests conforming to the suggestions in this paper...
Provided by ANTI-SPYWARE COALITION
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Case Studies
Cancer Treatment Centers of America
Apr 2009
Launched in 1988, Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) has more than 130 guest rooms and outpatient oncology clinics in Illinois, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Washington. As spam has increased...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall for Email Redundancy
Mar 2009
This paper describes how to use a Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall to obtain a level of redundancy and high reliability for email system without the complexity of setting up redundant email...
Provided by Barracuda Networks
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Whitepapers
A Novel Secure Cosine Similarity Computation Scheme With Malicious Adversaries
Mar 2013
Similarity coefficients play an important role in many aspects. Recently, several schemes were proposed, but these schemes aimed to compute the similarity coefficients of binary data. In this...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Whitepapers
Traceback of DoS Over Autonomous Systems
Mar 2013
Denial of Service (DoS) is a significant security threat in open networks such as the Internet. The existing limitations of the Internet protocols and the common availability tools make a DoS...
Provided by University of Essen
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Whitepapers
A 64 Bits Rotor Enhanced Block Cipher (REBC3)
Mar 2013
This paper gives a new proposed cryptosystem (REBC3) that is designed to take advantages of the new generation of 64bits microprocessors which commercially known as x64 systems. The old version...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Whitepapers
Fast Feature Reduction in Intrusion Detection Datasets
May 2012
In the most Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), a system tries to learn characteristics of different type of attacks by analyzing packets that sent or received in network. These packets have a lot...
Provided by Ferdowsi University Of Mashhad
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Whitepapers
Centralized and Cooperative Transmission of Secure Multiple Unicasts Using Network Coding
May 2013
The authors introduce a method for securely delivering a set of messages to a group of clients over a broadcast erasure channel where each client is interested in a distinct message. Each client...
Provided by Australian National University
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Whitepapers
Security Analysis for Internet of Ships
Dec 2012
With the development of water shipping technology, research and construction of the waterway information technology has received much more attention. However, smart shipping system still faces...
Provided by JATIT
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Whitepapers
A Lightweight Cooperative Detection Framework of DDOS/DOS Attacks Based on Counting Bloom Filter
Nov 2012
Detection and trace-back of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS/DoS) attacks have become a challenge for network security. In this paper, the authors propose a lightweight cooperative detection...
Provided by JATIT
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Whitepapers
Detection Method for Network Penetrating Behavior Based on Communication Fingerprint
Sep 2012
In order to monitor the use of network transmission software, the network penetrating technique based on encrypted proxy is discussed. By comparing the behavior of related penetration software,...
Provided by JATIT
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Whitepapers
Information Security, 4th Wave
Sep 2012
Applications today, information can be viewed as a commodity, like electricity, without which many companies and organizations cannot function. However, in the interconnected world the people live...
Provided by JATIT
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Whitepapers
A New Generic Taxonomy of Malware Behavioural Detection and Removal Techniques
Aug 2012
Modern malware has become a major threat to today's Internet communications. The threat can infiltrate hosts using a variety of methods, such as attacks against known software vulnerabilities,...
Provided by JATIT
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Whitepapers
TCAM Razor: A Systematic Approach Towards Minimizing Packet Classifiers in TCAMs
Feb 2008
Packet classification is the core mechanism that enables many networking services on the Internet such as firewall packet filtering and traffic accounting. Using Ternary Content Addressable...
Provided by Michigan State University
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Whitepapers
XEngine: A Fast and Scalable XACML Policy Evaluation Engine
Jun 2008
XACML has become the de facto standard for specifying access control policies for various applications, especially web services. With the explosive growth of web applications deployed on the...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
IP Multimedia Subsystem: Security Evaluation
May 2013
The IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) as network controller includes effective mechanisms for new services, regardless of the access technology. The network regroups all existing access IP-based...
Provided by JATIT
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Whitepapers
Dynamic Group Signature Scheme Based on Non-Interactive Proof
Apr 2013
Combined with identity-based signature technology and non-interactive proof, a dynamic group signature scheme was built based on the standard group scheme model. This scheme overcame the...
Provided by JATIT
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Whitepapers
Algorithm on Embedded Fingerprint Identification System
Apr 2013
Fingerprint identification technology is a kind of important biological identity recognition technology; it is also the most mature branch of biological recognition technology development....
Provided by JATIT
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Whitepapers
Research on Security Issues and Solutions of IEC 61850 Communication Protocol Architecture
Apr 2013
IEC 61850 Communication Protocol Architecture is widely used in China's electricity system for communication between the substation automatic systems. Due to the lacking of corresponding security...
Provided by JATIT
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Whitepapers
Maximal Profit Service Task Partition and Allocation in Computer Grid Considering Service Reliability and Security
Apr 2013
The paper considers grid computing systems in which the Resource Management Systems (RMS) divides a service tasks into Execution Blocks (EBs) and sends these blocks to different available...
Provided by JATIT
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Whitepapers
Quantum Information Delay Scheme Using Orthogonal Product States
Mar 2013
In this paper, the authors provide a quantum information delay scheme using orthogonal product states. By sharing orthogonal product states one person can give the other person some information...
Provided by Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
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Whitepapers
Honeypot Based Intrusion Management System: From a Passive Architecture to an IPS System
Jan 2013
In this paper, the authors are presenting an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) based on multiple sensors in the network. These sensors are in fact honeypots built using honeyd. Honeyd is a high...
Provided by Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
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Whitepapers
Distinct User Identification Method Using Web Log data
Aug 2012
With the Internet usage gaining popularity and the steady growth of users, the World Wide Web has become a huge repository of data and serves as an important platform for the dissemination of...
Provided by International forum of researchers Students and Academician
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Whitepapers
Data Mining Techniques for Crime/Terror Databases
Aug 2012
There have been several developments in data mining and the technology is being used for a wide variety of applications. It is also becoming a useful tool for detecting and preventing crime and...
Provided by International forum of researchers Students and Academician
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Whitepapers
CSO Quick Pulse: The Importance of Improving and Adapting Web Security
May 2013
With so much depending on Web site availability, CSOs are considering new ways to be cost-effectively proactive and vigilant. Learn about the challenges and options for web security deployment.
Provided by Akamai
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Whitepapers
Security Brief: Evolving Threats Demand New Approaches To Security
May 2013
The threat environment we ae seeing today is radically different from what existed just six months ago. Six months from now, I expect to say the same thing. The actors behind the threats are...
Provided by Akamai
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Whitepapers
Optimal Cryptographic Technique to Increase the Data Security
Mar 2013
There are many aspects to security ranging from secure commerce and payments to private communications and protecting passwords. One essential aspect for secure communications is that of secret...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
Home Automation and Security System Using Android ADK
Mar 2013
Home automation is automation of the home, housework or household activity. Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning),...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
Chaotic Based Key Management and Public-Key Cryptosystem
Nov 2012
Public key cryptography is an emerging field whose cryptosystem is based on number theory. However, these cryptosystems suffer from problems such as dealing with large numbers and large prime...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Telecommunications
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Whitepapers
Chaotic Encryption Based PGP Protocol
Feb 2013
E-mail service is one of the most important Internet services. E-mail security includes confidentiality, authentication, message integrity, non-repudiation. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Telecommunications
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Whitepapers
Design and Development of a Framework to Mitigate DoS/DDoS Attacks Using IPtables Firewall
Apr 2013
A DoS (Denial of Service) attack is characterized by an explicit attempt to prevent the legitimate use of a service. These attacks overwhelm the processing or link capacity of the target sites by...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Telecommunications
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Whitepapers
New Algorithm for SIP Flooding Attack Detection
Apr 2013
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services are based on standardized and open technologies (i.e., SIP, H.323) using servers reachable through the Internet, implemented in software and provided...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Telecommunications
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Whitepapers
A Survey on Software Security Testing Techniques
Apr 2013
This paper briefs a survey on software security techniques. Software security testing is not the identical as testing the correctness and competence of security functions implemented by software,...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Telecommunications
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Whitepapers
Towards a Perspective of Web Application Vulnerabilities and Security Threats
May 2013
The rapid and tremendous growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has increased access to web applications. This increased access has paved the way for disadvantageous security and...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Telecommunications
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Whitepapers
Network Intrusion Detection System Testing
Nov 2012
NIDS (Network Intrusion Detection System) aims at detecting possible intrusions such as a malicious activity, computer attack and/or computer misuse, spread of a virus, etc, and alerting the...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
A Robust IP Access Architecture
Jan 2013
A structured Robust IP (RIP) access architecture is described and its components are analyzed through the use of a proof of concept tested. Examples of the use of RIP and the heuristics it...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
Biometric Recognition Techniques
Jan 2013
A wide variety of systems require reliable personal recognition schemes to either confirm or determine the identity of an individual requesting their services. The purpose of such schemes is to...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
Research on the Traffic Behavior Characteristics of P2P Streaming Media
Jan 2013
With the development and popularization of Internet, P2P streaming media traffic has become the most important part of the variety kinds of network traffic. Therefore, the study of P2P streaming...
Provided by Journal of Computing
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Whitepapers
A Proposed Method of Information Hiding Based on Hybrid Cryptography and Steganography
Apr 2013
Combination of cryptography and Steganography for secure communication is an application, which combines both Cryptography methods (i.e. encryption and decryption) and Steganography techniques to...
Provided by International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management (IJAIEM)
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Whitepapers
VLSI Implementation of Advanced Encryption Standard Using Rijndael Algorithm
Apr 2013
Now-a-days Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is the most efficient public key encryption system based on Rijndael Algorithm that can be used to create faster and efficient cryptographic keys. AES...
Provided by International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management (IJAIEM)
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Whitepapers
Association Rule Based Data Mining Approach to HTTP Botnet Detection
Apr 2013
Botnet is most dangerous and widespread among all threats in today's cyber world. It is basically group of compromised computers connected via internet, mostly the vulnerable hosts, are remotely...
Provided by International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management (IJAIEM)
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Whitepapers
Enhanced OpenID Protocol in Identity Management
Apr 2013
Identity management is the process by which user identities are defined and managed in enterprise environment. Identity Management (IdM) describes the management of individual identifiers, their...
Provided by International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management (IJAIEM)
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Whitepapers
Privacy Preserving K-Means Clustering on Horizontally Distributed Data
Apr 2013
Privacy Preserving Data mining (PPDM) is the combination of information security technology and knowledge discovery technology. The aim of Privacy preserving data mining is the extraction of...
Provided by International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management (IJAIEM)
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Case Studies
Georgia Department of Human Resources Relies on McAfee to Protect Against Incoming Spam and Malware
Apr 2009
The Georgia Department of Human Resources is the state's largest agency with 19,000 employees in 159 counties. It provides health and social services to the state's citizens. It needed to manage...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
Abtran Meets Its Clients' Increasing Security Requirements With McAfee Security Risk Management Solutions
Feb 2009
Abtran is a market leader in delivering Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). Its focus is on strategic, mutually beneficial partnerships with major corporate and government clients in domestic and...
Provided by McAfee
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Webcasts
Gartner Presentation: Combating the Rising Tide of Web-Borne Threats
Jan 2009
Companies should be implementing something that goes beyond what they are doing now, that actually filters malware within the Internet Gateway. Hackers are not just interested in sending one virus...
Provided by Aladdin Knowledge Systems
-
White Papers
Denial of Service Attacks in Networks With Tiny Buffers
Apr 2009
Recently, several papers have studied the possibility of shrinking buffer sizes in Internet core routers to just a few dozen packets under certain constraints. If proven right, these results can...
Provided by University of Toronto
-
White Papers
DDoS Protection Service: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
Oct 2008
Since the early days of the Internet, "Denial-of-service" (DoS) attacks have been a fact of life. The goal of these attacks is to restrict on a grand scale the availability of certain online...
Provided by Swisscom
-
White Papers
Empirical Study of Tolerating Denial-of-Service Attacks With the Fosel Architecture
Jul 2009
Filtering techniques are one of the main approaches to protect applications from Denial of Service Attacks (DoS). However filtering techniques suffer from two main challenges: the accuracy...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Inputs of Coma: Static Detection of Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities
Apr 2009
As networked systems grow in complexity, they are increasingly vulnerable to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks involving resource exhaustion. A single malicious input of coma can trigger...
Provided by University of Texas
-
White Papers
A Case Study: Using Architectural Features to Improve Sophisticated Denial-of-Service Attack Detections
Jan 2009
Application features such as port numbers are used by Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs) to detect attacks coming from networks. System calls and the operating system related...
Provided by Louisiana State University
-
White Papers
Game Theoretic Resistance to Denial of Service Attacks Using Hidden Difficulty Puzzles
Jul 2009
Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerabilities are one of the major concerns in today's Internet. Client-puzzles offer a good mechanism to defend servers against DoS attacks. This paper introduces the...
Provided by Anna University
-
White Papers
Mitigating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Multiparty Applications in the Presence of Clock Drifts
Jul 2008
A weak point in network-based applications is that they commonly open some known communication port(s), making themselves targets for Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Considering adversaries that...
Provided by Chalmers University of Technology
-
White Papers
Denial-of-Service Attacks on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
Feb 2008
Cognitive radio technologies have emerged as a platform to solve the problem of spectrum scarcity for wireless applications since cognitive radios have the potential to utilize the idle licensed...
Provided by Stevens Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
The Early Detection of DDoS Based on the Persistent Increment Feature of the Traffic Volume
Dec 2007
One of the major threats to cyber security is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. This paper proposes a new algorithm based on the persistent increment tendency of DDoS traffic. The...
Provided by Polytechnic University
-
White Papers
A Principle of a Data Synthesizer for Performance Test of Anti-DDOS Flood Attacks
Mar 2008
Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDOS) flood attacks remain a big issue in network security. Real events of DDOS flood attacks show that an attacked site (e.g., server) usually may not be...
Provided by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
-
Whitepapers
Q1 2009 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Report
May 2009
Contained within the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) report for the first Quarter (Q1) of 2009 are news items regarding noteworthy cyber attacks and botnets, the individuals or organizations...
Provided by VeriSign
-
Case Studies
ALC Maintains System Integrity With Tripwire Configuration Control Solutions
Jul 2009
Since 1976, the Atlantic Lottery Corporation (ALC) has been contributing to Atlantic Canada's economy and way of life by generating significant revenue on behalf of the governments of Nova Scotia,...
Provided by Tripwire
-
Case Studies
Leibniz Computing Center Delivers IT Innovation to Its 100,000 Users With F5's BIG-IP Solution
Jan 2008
The Leibniz Computing Center in Munich, Germany provides general IT services for Munich's universities and for the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The challenge was to handle...
Provided by F5 Networks
-
White Papers
An Interval Decision Diagram Based Firewall
Jan 2009
This paper explores the use of Interval Decision Diagrams (IDDs) as the central structure of a firewall packet filtering mechanism. This is done by first relating the packet filtering problem to...
Provided by Aalborg University
-
White Papers
An MTIDD Based Firewall: Using Decision Diagrams for Packet Filtering
Jan 2009
This paper explores the use of Multi-Terminal Interval Decision Diagrams (MTIDDs) as the central structure of a firewall packet filtering mechanism. This is done by first relating the packet...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
-
White Papers
Associating the Authentication and Connection-Establishment Phases in Passive Authorization Techniques
Jul 2008
Port Knocking and Single Packet Authorization (SPA) are passive authorization techniques that provide firewall-level authentication to ensure authorized access to potentially vulnerable network...
Provided by National University of Science and Technology
-
White Papers
Firewall Implementation and Testing
May 2009
Almost every machine on the internet today is protected by a firewall. Many of them are misconfigured which is seldom discovered due to poor testing. This paper summarizes the experiences in...
Provided by Linkopings universitet
-
White Papers
Towards Complete Node Enumeration in a Peer-to-Peer Botnet
Mar 2009
Modern advanced botnets may employ a decentralized peer-to-peer overlay network to bootstrap and maintain their command and control channels, making them more resilient to traditional mitigation...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Finding an Optimized Discriminate Function for Internet Application Recognition
Jun 2009
Everyday the usages of the Internet increase and simply a world of the data become accessible. Network providers do not want to let the provided services to be used in harmful or terrorist...
Provided by Amirkabir University of Technology
-
White Papers
Comparing Industry Leading Anti-Spam Services
Mar 2009
The following analysis summarizes the spam catch and false positive rates of the leading anti-spam vendors. Compiled by Opus One, an independent research firm, this report provides data to...
Provided by Cisco Systems
-
White Papers
Stopping Spam in Higher Education
Aug 2008
The rise in spam is a pain point for everyone involved. Student and faculty users, most of who are already pressed for time, must spend additional energy sifting through unwanted messages to make...
Provided by IronPort Systems
-
White Papers
Malware in Email
Aug 2009
Email is known to be one of the most popular infection vectors. Besides malicious programs attached to messages, email is linked to other threats such as phishing and messages containing links to...
Provided by Borderware Technologies
-
White Papers
ReputationAuthority: Your First Line of Defense
Aug 2009
Commonly, spammers and unknown solicitors send email to a local domain, domains that match destination or IP address, looking for a valid email address. Once the spammer receives confirmation of...
Provided by Borderware Technologies
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White Papers
Considerations for Anti-Spyware Product Testing
Apr 2008
This paper outlines some of the considerations that should be taken into account when tests on anti-spyware products are conducted and reviewed. Tests conforming to the suggestions in this paper...
Provided by ANTI-SPYWARE COALITION
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Case Studies
Cancer Treatment Centers of America
Apr 2009
Launched in 1988, Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) has more than 130 guest rooms and outpatient oncology clinics in Illinois, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Washington. As spam has increased...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall for Email Redundancy
Mar 2009
This paper describes how to use a Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall to obtain a level of redundancy and high reliability for email system without the complexity of setting up redundant email...
Provided by Barracuda Networks
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White Papers
Email Defense Service: Overview
Aug 2009
Don't be fooled. Spam is not just a nuisance. It is a productivity-killer, a carrier of network-debilitating viruses, and a way for cyber criminals to send more spam. Be in control with MX Logic...
Provided by MX Logic
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White Papers
The Importance of Integrating Host and Network Forensics
Aug 2009
It is against list of requirements and with the objective of solving this exact problem that AccessData has integrated its host- (AD Enterprise) and network- (SilentRunner Sentinel) based forensic...
Provided by AccessData
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Webcasts
Best Practices in Intrusion Prevention
Jan 2005
Detecting a network intrusion is great, but wouldn't your organization be better off if you could prevent such an intrusion from happening in the first place? That's where intrusion prevention...
Provided by ZDNet
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White Papers
Propagation Modeling and Analysis of Viruses in P2P Networks
Jul 2008
To counter the attacks of virus in P2P file-sharing networks, the model of virus propagation in P2P networks is proposed based on deep analysis on the features of file sharing and virus...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Spam Detection Using Clustering, Random Forests, and Active Learning
Jul 2009
This paper describes work in progress. The research is focused on efficient construction of effective models for spam detection. Clustering messages allows for efficient labeling of a...
Provided by George Mason University
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Presentations
Firewall Basics for the Beginning User
Apr 2004
Designed for end-user training, this PowerPoint presentation offers a detailed, yet easy-to-understand explanation of how personal firewall software works, what it can and cannot protect against,...
Provided by University of Arizona
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White Papers
Anti-Malware Evaluation for the Enterprise
May 2008
Like malware nomenclature and the alleged total reliance of anti-virus software on signature detection, detection performance testing of anti-malware programs, especially comparative testing,...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
New Ways of Infection - The USBs
Jun 2009
It's a good few years now since the antivirus industry warned users of how the floppy disk was the main channel of infection between computers. At that time, the Internet was still in the...
Provided by Panda Security
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Case Studies
ESET Case Study: Westwood One Tunes in ESET
Dec 2009
Westwood One is a large provider of network radio programming and one of the largest domestic providers of traffic information in the U.S. It was looking for a company to support older legacy...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
Opcodes as Predictor for Malware
Jan 2008
This paper discusses a detection mechanism for malicious code through statistical analysis of opcode distributions. A total of 67 malware executables were sampled statically disassembled and their...
Provided by Inderscience Enterprises
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White Papers
An Empirical Study of Malware Evolution
Dec 2008
The diversity, sophistication and availability of malicious software (malcode/malware) pose enormous challenges for securing networks and end hosts from attacks. This paper analyzes a large corpus...
Provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison
