The Top Ten Security Threats for 2008 (Part 12)
Posted on December 4th, 2007 by Tim Bass
Here is another top ten cyber security threat for 2008:
— Denial-of-service attacks.
Distributed denial-of-service (DoS) attacks in cyberspace are one of the most difficult threats to defend against. Criminals or terrorists, for example, can use botnets to send a large number of queries or other malicious traffic to servers, effectively shutting them down. A successful, sustained denial-of-service attack against critical infrastructure, such as the DNS root [...]
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