Think a DDOS Attack Cant Happen to You? Think Again Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have been around a long time. Typically, the attacker generates vast numbers of requests to a targeted system using packets from different source addresses. The target, trying to process and respond to this internet hug of death is overwhelmed and ends up ignoring legitimate requests. Because packets come from many sources, its almost impossible to block only malicious traffic, which looks just like benign traffic. (The recently identified XML vulnerability in Wordpress had to do with a type of Denial of Service attack called the XML Quadratic Blowup Attack.)
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:52:14 +0000
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