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A denial-of-service attack (also known as Dos Attack, an English acronym for Denial of Service), is an attempt to make a system’s resources unavailable to its users. Typical targets are web servers, and the attack attempts to make the pages hosted unavailable on the internet. It is not an invasion of the system, but its invalidation by overload.
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viewsDenial of service with stress test
First of all, a stress test, second this reply from @guiandmag is: Stress testing consists of subjecting the software to extreme situations. Basically, the stress test is based on testing the…
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viewsDemonstrating a slowloris attack on apache server using Python
I have the network dump (file in PCAP format captured with tcpdump) of a "chat" between the attacked server (Apache web server: 192.168.1.2) and the malicious clients: The attack was a simulation in…
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viewsHow does a Ddos attack work?
I’m curious trying to understand how a Ddos attack works, so I gave a read online and then wrote this snippet of code to attack my own router to see what happens: import socket, threading n = 0 s =…
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viewsBlock unwanted AJAX calls
I did a test on Google Plus, turned on Firebug and inserted a post. When parsing Firebug I recovered the URL it was executed via AJAX. I copied the URL and ran it in the browser with the active…
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viewsHow to improve considerably the security of Apache?
I am setting up a web server using Apache. My question is the following: Which modules I use to improve security against malicious attacks and hits on the pages posted on my server? I know there are…
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viewsMicro Ddos mitigation and sudden high access number in resource-limited web applications
It is extensive documentation of how to mitigate (proactively reduce impact while it occurs) denial of service attacks in web applications. People usually cite services like Cloudflare or else as…
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viewsServer DDOS attack
Hello, I have a server that is suffering DOS attack, I used the command: watch -n1 'attackers' in SSH to see the attacks. Basically it has an IP that makes some 380 connections, and makes the server…
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viewsTrying to access browserconfig.xml could be some kind of attack?
Here in the company where I work, we put in a certain system, made in Laravel 4, a system of sending emails every time some kind of error occurs in requests. We started to distrust some activities,…
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viewsThere are anti-ddos in apache ? What measures should I take by apache for prevention?
In greater detail: I believe that I am suffering some kind of attack, I suspected and I put an anti ddos, and it has already blocked some addresses, it released me the network and returned to…
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viewsProtection against attack ddos
My site is suffering DDOS type attacks, so what I read about this type of attack is that there is no 100% protection that can solve the problem. Is there any method that can at least slow or freeze…
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viewsAre Ipv6 Vulnerable to Ddos Attacks?
There is how to attack an IPV6 address using DDoS, that is, flood the traffic of a server that uses IPv6? Example: Website.com [xxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxx::x], I wonder if there is any way to overthrow…