HTTP floods are one of the most devastating types of DDoS attacks currently available to an attacker. It is an attack at the application layer (Layer 7 of the OSI model), meant to exhaust a system’s application resources. It is very easy to execute, doesn’t require a massive botnet or any sort of tricks to […]
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Canadian government sites were attacked by DDoS
‘Anonymous’ says it cyberattacked federal government to protest Bill C-51 Around 1:30 pm ET on Tuesday afternoon, Canadian government websites became inaccessible due to a denial-of-service attack, The Globe and Mail reported. The attack affected industry, employment, national resources, fisheries and oceans, justice, labor, foreign affaisr, environment and transportation related websites. A denial-of-service attack, sometimes […]
AINA Brought Down By DDoS Attack
AINA’s website was the target of a massive distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack which made the site unavailable for more than one week. The attack was launched on June 8 and continued until yesterday. The source of the attack is unknown. A DDOS attack floods a site with hundreds of thousands of requests, which […]
Incapsula’s DDoS Protection
Secure your website against all types of DDoS attacks – including network, application and DNS targeted attacks. With vast global network capacity, our “always on” service mitigates the largest and smartest DDoS attacks. Infrastructure Protection, leveraging BGP routing and GRE tunnels, lets you protect critical infrastructure (e.g., web, email, FTP, VoIP) on demand across entire […]
Bypass Cloudflare DDoS protection
First of all, let me explain how user integrity check works and why it is a problem for HTTP based (layer 7) attacks. Basically, it checks for two different factors: Cookies validation and Javascript validation. The flood must pass these two factors in order to access the website. Now the cookies validation is quite easy […]