denial-of-service
How to Defend Your XML Web Service against Hackers
One of the biggest concerns we hear from developers when we talk about the potential of XML Web Services is the fear of vulnerabilities that might allow malicious users to attack their services. The bad news is that attacks can result in such atrocities as limiting the availability of your service, private data being compromised, [...]
Security and Protection Features in Citrix NetScaler
Security and protection features help block the theft and leakage of data by protecting Web applications from application-layer attacks. A NetScaler allows legitimate client requests and can block malicious requests. It provides built-indefenses against denial of service (DoS) attacks and supports features that protect the application against legitimate surges in application traffic that wouldotherwise overwhelm [...]
Vulnerability in Local Security Authority Subsystem Service Could Allow Denial of Service
Bulletin Severity Rating:Important – This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if an attacker sent a maliciously crafted packet during the NTLM authentication process. More: continued here
How to Disable remote logging in Syslog daemon
Syslog daemon in Solaris by default is enabled for remote logging and will listen on UDP port 514 for syslog messages from remote systems. Unless, the server is acting as a remote logging server, this can be a Security issue as a malicious user can launch a DenialOf Service (DoS) attack on the server. To [...]