Computer Science · Computer Networks
A topic within Computer Networks, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
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How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time
Stuart Staniford, Vern Paxson & Nicholas Weaver · 2002
Models how fast a well-engineered worm could spread across the whole internet, arguing existing defences could not react in time and that automated…
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Security Problems in the TCP/IP Protocol Suite
Steven M. Bellovin · 1989
Catalogues attacks, such as sequence number prediction and source address forgery, that follow directly from TCP/IP's original design assumptions,…
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Stuart Staniford, Vern Paxson & Nicholas Weaver
Models how fast a well-engineered worm could spread across the whole internet, arguing existing defences could not react in time and that automated countermeasures were the only feasible response.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Steven M. Bellovin
Catalogues attacks, such as sequence number prediction and source address forgery, that follow directly from TCP/IP's original design assumptions, made before the network had adversaries.
link checked 17 Sept 2026David Wagner & Bruce Schneier
Finds several protocol-level weaknesses in SSL 3.0 that stem from cryptographic shortcuts made for performance, arguing security review has to happen before deployment, not after.
link checked 17 Sept 2026David Moore, Geoffrey M. Voelker & Stefan Savage
Introduces backscatter analysis to measure denial-of-service attacks happening across the whole internet from a single vantage point, without needing cooperation from the victims.
link checked 17 Sept 2026