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CORR
2010
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Simulating Cyber-Attacks for Fun and Profit
We introduce a new simulation platform called Insight, created to design and simulate cyber-attacks against large arbitrary target scenarios. Insight has surprisingly low hardware...
Ariel Futoransky, Fernando Miranda, José Ig...
SP
1997
IEEE
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15 years 1 months ago
Analysis of a Denial of Service Attack on TCP
This paper analyzes a network-baseddenial of service attack for IP (Internet Protocol) based networks. It is popularly called SYN flooding. It works by an attacker sending many T...
Christoph L. Schuba, Ivan Krsul, Markus G. Kuhn, E...
CCS
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Code injection attacks on harvard-architecture devices
Harvard architecture CPU design is common in the embedded world. Examples of Harvard-based architecture devices are the Mica family of wireless sensors. Mica motes have limited me...
Aurélien Francillon, Claude Castelluccia
NCA
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
FOSeL: Filtering by Helping an Overlay Security Layer to Mitigate DoS Attacks
Denial of service (DoS) attacks are major threat against availability in the Internet. A large number of countermeasure techniques try to detect attack and then filter out DoS at...
Hakem Beitollahi, Geert Deconinck
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Protecting C programs from attacks via invalid pointer dereferences
Writes via unchecked pointer dereferences rank high among vulnerabilities most often exploited by malicious code. The most common attacks use an unchecked string copy to cause a b...
Suan Hsi Yong, Susan Horwitz