Web Directory

» 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.
   http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/m_kabay_1.html

» Black Lotus DDoS Protection
   Provider of turn-key DDoS protection solutions.
   http://www.blacklotus.net/

» CERT Advisory CA-2000-01 Denial-of-Service Developments
   Denial of Service developments including description, impact, and solutions.
   http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-01.html

» CERT Incident Note: DoS Attacks Using Nameservers
   Description of how intruders use name servers to execute packet flooding denial of service attacks.
   http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2000-04.html

» Cisco
   Strategies to protect against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. This article applies primarily to sites using Cisco equipment.
   http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/newsflash.html

» DDOS Protection
   Information about the world of distributed denial of service attacks and their prevention.
   http://www.squidoo.com/ddos

» Defeating DDoS
   An illustrated white paper describing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack methodology and prevention.
   http://www10.org/cdrom/papers/409/

» Denial of Service (DoS) Resource Page
   Collection of articles and links about Denial of Service attacks
   http://www.denialinfo.com/

» 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.
   http://www.bitpipe.com/rlist/term/Denial-of-Service-Attacks.html

» Denial of Service Help Page
   Advice for victims of Denial Of Service Attacks, geared towards users of IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
   http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/nuke/

» Denial-of-service attack
   Description of DDoS and prevention resources from Wikipedia Encyclopedia.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_service

» Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks/tools
   A community managed resource for distributed denial of service attack related information and prevention tools.
   http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/ddos/

» 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.
   http://www.hostlibrary.com/DistributedDenialofService-ProtectingCriticalSystems-ddos.html

» DoShelp.com
   Tools and patches to protect a person's computer from hackers, Denial of Service, and other intrusions.
   http://www.doshelp.com/

» Magnification Attacks: smurf and fraggle
   Security white paper describing some common magnification (smurf) attacks, what they are, and how to avoid them.
   http://pintday.org/whitepapers/dos-smurf.shtml

» Microsoft Windows Update
   Latest bug fixes for Microsoft Windows, including fixes for some possible DoS attacks.
   http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

» Network Ingress Filtering
   A simple, effective, and straightforward method for network administrators to prohibit DoS attacks which use forged IP addresses.
   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2267

» SecurityFocus
   Site maintains an database of vulnerabilities and solutions including Denial Of Service attacks.
   http://www.securityfocus.org/

» 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.
   http://www.powertech.no/smurf/

» Smurf Attack Information
   White paper describing and providing practical information on how to minimize the effects of smurf attacks.
   http://www.pentics.net/denial-of-service/white-papers/smurf.cgi

» 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.
   http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/stacheldraht.analysis

» Trinoo Analysis
   An analysis of the DoS Project's trin00 master/slave programs, which implement a distributed network denial of service tool.
   http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/trinoo.analysis

» Understanding Denial-of-Service Attacks
   A brief overview on identifying DoS attacks from the US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Response Team).
   http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-015.html

» Webscreen Technology
   Offers filtering appliances with DDoS mitigation features.
   http://www.webscreen-technology.com/

» 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.
   http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci213591,00.html

» 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.
   http://www.bindview.com/Support/RAZOR/Utilities/Windows/ZombieZapper_form.cfm