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• Shark Attacks.
• Although shark attacks get a lot of attention, this is far less than the number of people killed each year by elephants, bees, crocodiles, lightning or many other natural dangers. ...
• Only 32 species have been documented in attacks on humans, and an additional 36 species are considered potentially dangerous.
• Almost any shark six feet or longer is a potential danger, but three species have been identified repeatedly in attacks: the great white, tiger, and bull sharks. ... More attacks on swimmers, free divers, scuba divers, surfers and boats have been reported for the great white shark than for any other species. However, some 80% of all shark attacks probably occur in the tropics and subtropics, where other shark species dominate and white sharks are relatively rare.
• As a case in point, most attacks in Australia prior to the 1970's were attributed to the sand tiger shark, Odontaspis taurus, called the grey nurse shark by the Australians. ...
• Many shark attacks occur in nearshore waters, typically inshore of a sandbar where sharks may be confined at low tide. ...
• Some attacks may be purely an inquisitive testing, some may be territorial responses, some could be due to unintentional interference by the victim in shark courtship activities, and some may be directly associated with feeding behaviors. Some scientists speculate that shark attacks on humans often are cases of mistaken identity, except in unusual situations such as when a sinking ship throws many people into the water. ...
• But if white sharks attack humans for food, the fact that nearly 75% of these attacks are non-fatal indicates that either the method of attack is allowing the human victim to escape, or we just don't taste right to them.
• Unprovoked shark attacks can be categorized as hit and run, bump and bite, or sneak attacks. Hit and run attacks typically occur in the surf zone with swimmers and surfers as targets. ... According to ISAF Curator George Burgess, these attacks in most cases are probably due to mistaken identity where water visibility is poor, wave and current action are high, and human recreational activities are prevalent. Some of these attacks could also involve social behaviors unrelated to feeding, such as dominance behaviors similar to those observed in land animals. ...
• Bump and bite attacks are characterized by the shark circling and often bumping the victim prior to the attack. Sneak attacks occur without warning. In both cases, repeat attacks are common and injuries are usually quite severe, sometime fatal. These shark attacks, which include most attacks involving airplane and ship accidents, may be the result of deliberate feeding or combative behaviors rather than cases of mistaken identity.

• Twenty years of attacks on the RSA cryptosystem .
• Two decades of research led to a number fascinating attacks on RSA. We survey several attacks and classify them into four categories: elementary attacks, attacks on low private exponent, attacks on low public exponent, and attacks on the implementation of RSA. ...

• Denial of Service or "Nuke" Attacks.
• The purpose of this page is to provide information and defenses against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, which cause networked computers to disconnect from the network or just outright crash. For example, a teenager using very simple DoS tools managed to cripple the web sites of large companies like Yahoo and Amazon during a series of attacks in February 2000 (see this CNN article). These attacks are sometimes also called "nukes", "hacking", or "cyber-attacks", but we will use the technically correct term of DoS attacks. ...
• DoS attacks are very common but they are not a joking matter. ...
• Often the victims are people on Internet Relay Chat (IRC), but DoS attacks do not involve IRC servers in any way, so IRC operators (IRC ops) cannot stop or punish the offenders. ... Instead, read this page to learn more about these attacks, make sure your computer is patched against known weaknesses, and if necessary consider getting some protective "firewall" software. Denial of service should not be confused with other attacks like viruses, Trojan Horses, and cracking or "hacking". ...
• There are two types of DoS attacks, both of which are described in the next major section: .
• Operating System attacks, which target bugs in specific operating systems and can be fixed with patches. ...
• Networking attacks, which exploit inherent limitations of networking and may require firewall protection. ...
• Operating System Attacks.
• These attacks exploit bugs in a specific operating system (OS), which is the basic software that your computer runs, such as Windows XP. ... Networking Attacks.
• These attacks exploit inherent limitations of networking to disconnect you from the IRC server or your ISP, but don't usually cause your computer to crash. Generally it doesn't matter what kind of operating system you use, and there is essentially nothing you can do personally to defend against the attacks. Even large companies like Yahoo, Amazon, and Microsoft have been crippled by such large scale attacks. Network attacks include outright floods of data to overwhelm the finite capacity of your connection, spoofed unreach/redirect aka "click" which tricks your computer into thinking there is a network failure and voluntarily breaking the connection, and a whole new generation of distributed denial of service attacks (although these are seldom used against individuals unless you've really upset somebody). ...

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• Mars Attacks! is Tim Burtons homage to the 50's and 60's science fiction movies he grew up watching. ... Mars Attacks! ranks as the biggest financial failure in Burtons career, and it has got pretty mixed reviews all around. ...
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• Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks,.
• As I write this article in mid-February 2000, Internet users are suffering the consequences of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on several major e-commerce sites. These attacks involved two types of victims: the initial and the final.
• The DDoS attacks involve tools such as trin00, Tribe Flood Network (TFN), Stacheldraht and TFN2K, widely available on the Internet due to the irresponsibility and stupidity of programmers with less social conscience than the average bacterium. ... The slaves serve as amplifiers for the denial-of-service attacks, allowing criminal hackers to put together an unauthorized parallel-processing system to abuse their victims.
• But regardless of who is causing these DDoS attacks, there's an issue that has concerned security specialists and tort lawyers for many years: the question of whom to sue for damages when an attack is launched from a site that has itself been victimized by criminal hackers.
• Simply put, whom would you rather sue: some impecunious wretch sitting in a basement cackling over his latest DDoS attack or a real business with assets? In my opinion, if DDoS attacks become a significant impediment to e-commerce, there are bound to be lawsuits against the owners and administrators of the first-line infected hosts harboring the DDoS slaves. ...

• The Role of Pakistan's Military Intelligence (ISI) in the September 11 Attacks  .
• General Mahmoud Ahmad "was in the US when the attacks occurred. " He arrived in the US on the 4th of September, a full week before the attacks. He had meetings at the State Department "after" the attacks on the WTC. ...
• General Mahmoud Ahmad to directly "cooperate" with Pakistan's military intelligence (ISI) despite its links to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban and its alleged role in the assassination of Commander Masood, which coincidentally occurred two days before the terrorist attacks.
• General Mahmoud Ahmad and the presumed "ring leader" of the WTC attacks Mohamed Atta. ...
• Moreover, it suggests that the September 11 attacks were not an act of "individual terrorism" organised by a separate Al Qaeda cell, but rather they were part of coordinated military-intelligence operation, emanating from Pakistan's ISI.
• The Times of India report also sheds light on the nature of General Ahmad's "business activities" in the US during the week prior to September 11, raising the distinct possibility of ISI contacts with Mohamed Atta in the US "prior" to the attacks on the WTC, precisely at the time when General Mahmoud and his delegation were on a so-called "regular visit of consultations" with US officials.
• In other words, according to the Indian government intelligence report, the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks had links to Pakistan's ISI, which in turn has links to agencies of the US government. ...
• Two days after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, a delegation led by the head of Pakistan's military intelligence agency (ISI) Lt. ...
• General Mahmoud Ahmad "was in the US when the attacks occurred. ...
• Not a word was mentioned regarding the nature of his "business" in the US in the week prior to the terrorist attacks. ...
• General Ahmad had in fact arrived in the US on the 4th of September, a full week before the attacks. 5 Bear in mind that the purpose of his meeting at the State Department on the 13th was only made public "after" the September 11 terrorist attacks, when the Bush Administration took the decision to formally seek the "cooperation" of Pakistan in its "campaign against international terrorism. ...
• The Bush Administration consciously took the decision in "the post September 11 consultations" at the State Department to directly "cooperate" with Pakistan's military intelligence (ISI) despite its links to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban and its alleged role in the assassination of Commander Masood, which coincidentally occurred two days before the terrorist attacks.
• General Mahmoud Ahmad and the presumed "ring leader" of the WTC attacks Mohamed Atta. In many regards, the Times of India report constitutes "the missing link" to an understanding of who was behind the terrorist attacks of September 11:.

• Denial of Service Attacks using Nameservers.
• Intruders are using nameservers to execute packet flooding denial of service attacks. ...
• We are receiving an increasing number of reports of intruders using nameservers to execute packet flooding denial of service attacks. ...
• AusCERT published an advisory in 1999 discussing denial of service attacks that utilize DNS and nameservers. For more information about the attack method, and for BIND 8 configuration strategies to mitigate the effectiveness of attacks, see .
• 004, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks using the Domain Name System (DNS) .
• For information about using packet filtering to prevent denial of service attacks based on IP source spoofing, see .
• RFC2827/BCP 38, Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing.
• 21, TCP SYN Flooding and IP Spoofing Attacks Author: Kevin Houle.

• Distributed Denial of Service Attacks.
• Detailed explanation of DDoS attacks .
• Distributed Denial of Service Attacks have recently emerged as one of the most newsworthy, if not the greatest, weaknesses of the Internet. ...
• Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a relatively new development; they first appeared in the summer last year, and were first widely discussed a couple of months ago. ...
• What's worse, there's no current prospect of either tracking the perpetrators down, or of preventing similar attacks in the near future.
• The problem is, their coverage hasn't been sufficiently detailed to explain why we cannot track down the people committing these attacks, and why we can't defend against them. ...
• A brief note on usage: the network where these attacks are taking place is called the ``Internet'', with a capital ``I''; it is the public network shared by people all over the world. ...
• Detailed explanation of DDoS attacks.
• DDoS attacks involve breaking into hundreds or thousands of machines all over the Internet. Then the attacker installs DDoS software on them, allowing them to control all these burgled machines to launch coordinated attacks on victim sites. These attacks typically exhaust bandwidth, router processing capacity, or network stack resources, breaking network connectivity to the victims.
• By the time they are ready to mount the kind of attacks we've seen recently (gigabytes per second of traffic dumped on Yahoo, according to reports in SANS) they have taken over thousands of machines and assembled them into a DDoS network; this just means they all have the attack software installed on them, and the attacker knows all their addresses (stored in a file on their control system).
• The attacker runs a single command, which sends command packets to all the captured machines, instructing them to launch a particular attack (from a menu of different varieties of flooding attacks) against a specific victim. ...
• Now to go into details of the attacks. ... The controlled machines being used to mount the attacks send a stream of packets. For most of the attacks, these packets are directed at the victim machine. ...

• Terrorist Attacks on the U. ...

• Certain information, while not specific as to target, gives the government reason to believe that there may be additional terrorist attacks within the United States and against U. ...

• Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity Attacks.
• We present a new class of low-bandwidth denial of service attacks that exploit algorithmic deficiencies in many common applications' data structures. ... We show how an attacker can effectively compute such input, and we demonstrate attacks against the hash table implementations in two versions of Perl, the Squid web proxy, and the Bro intrusion detection system. ... We show how modern universal hashing techniques can yield performance comparable to commonplace hash functions while being provably secure against these attacks. ...
• Related work also includes Fast Content-Based Packet Handling for Intrusion Detectin by Mike Fisk and George Varghese which has a subsection that discusses 'Algorithmic Performance Attacks' where an attacker may intentionally provide inputs that will knowingly cause the worst-case performance for a network intrusion device. ...
• These attacks are not known to be occuring in the wild. ...
• Although we are unaware of similar attacks on other CGI libraries, it is likely that similar vulnerabilities exist. ...
• A source release of a universal hashing library that is not vulnerable to these attacks. ...
• Put in section about attacks known to occur in the wild. ...

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