April 2006
Distributed Reflection Denial of Service: A Bandwidth Attack
by Anoop Mangla
A bandwidth attack floods a network with large volume of bogus packets in order to overwhelm the network bandwidth. The aim is to consume network bandwidth of the targeted network to such an extent that it starts dropping packets. The packets that get dropped also include legitimate traffic, thus causing denial of service to valid users… more →
LinkDemand and InheritanceDemand
by Sangita Pakala, GCIH
.NET’s Code Access Security is a powerful mechanism to ensure that your code is protected from malicious assemblies. In the first article of this series, we discussed asserts and demands. Now let’s delve a little deeper into two special types of demands.… more →
Quiz: Phishing & Pharming targets
Which of the following websites is least likely to be a target of phishing / pharming attacks?
- An ecommerce-enabled website having SSL encryption, password authentication mechanism, and which sends customer account statements via email.
- An internet banking website with SSL encryption, two-factor authentication and which does not send any customer information via email.
- An ecommerce-enabled website with no SSL-based login and a simple password authentication mechanism.
- An internet banking website with SSL encryption and multi-factor authentication. Additionally the website displays unique visual clues to each user.
Review: Source Code Analysis Suite
by Santosh Kumar
We are seeing a lot of application attacks recently. Most of the vulnerabilities being exploited are a result of insecure coding. The need of the hour is secure code in applications. For applications still in the design or coding stage, developers can follow secure coding guidelines. But what about applications those are already in use? Time to call in the source code detective.… more →