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Anit-DDoS Articles - A Blog by Systems Engineer Nix101, developed to share tips and best practices pertaining to DDoS Protection and system hardening.
Black Lotus DDoS Protection - Provider of turn-key DDoS protection solutions.
CERT Advisory CA-2000-01 Denial-of-Service Developments - Denial of Service developments including description, impact, and solutions.
Cisco - Strategies to protect against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. This article applies primarily to sites using Cisco equipment.
DDOS Protection - Information about the world of distributed denial of service attacks and their prevention.
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.
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.
Denial of Service Database - Details of many attacks: categorized by platform affected and using OSAT notation. No longer updated.
Denial of Service (DoS) Resource Page - Collection of articles and links about Denial of Service attacks
Denial of Service Help Page - Advice for victims of Denial Of Service Attacks, geared towards users of IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
Denial-of-service attack - Description of DDoS and prevention resources from Wikipedia Encyclopedia.
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.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks/tools - A community managed resource for distributed denial of service attack related information and prevention tools.
DoShelp.com - Tools and patches to protect a person's computer from hackers, Denial of Service, and other intrusions.
Magnification Attacks: smurf and fraggle - Security white paper describing some common magnification (smurf) attacks, what they are, and how to avoid them.
Microsoft Windows Update - Latest bug fixes for Microsoft Windows, including fixes for some possible DoS attacks.
Network Ingress Filtering - A simple, effective, and straightforward method for network administrators to prohibit DoS attacks which use forged IP addresses.
SecurityFocus - Site maintains an database of vulnerabilities and solutions including Denial Of Service attacks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CERT Incident Note: DoS Attacks Using Nameservers - Description of how intruders use name servers to execute packet flooding denial of service attacks.
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.
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.