Denial of service (DoS) attacks, the scourge of the internet, and an effectively unstoppable menace, may soon meet their match. A security team based at the Southern California Information Sciences Institute (ISI), has developed a system to combat the DoS threat. . . .
Denial of service (DoS) attacks, the scourge of the internet, and an effectively unstoppable menace, may soon meet their match. A security team based at the Southern California Information Sciences Institute (ISI), has developed a system to combat the DoS threat. Experts say DoS attacks are becoming more common, and ISI reckons there could be as many as 4,000 attacks occurring every week. But armed with a $1.2m grant from the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), ISI says that Cossack (Coordinated Suppression of Simultaneous Attacks) is the answer.

"Rather than passively waiting for attacks to occur Cossack will put 'automatic cops', in the form of a network of dedicated security computers, on the job, proactively monitoring the internet for danger signs," said Christos Papadopoulos, an ISI researcher.

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