Month: March 2023

credential stuffing

Credential stuffing is no DDoS!

I have heard this many times over the course of the last several years: someone is experiencing a heavy DDoS attack on their website. When I ask them what type of attack they are experiencing, the answer is usually that the bad guys are sending them thousands or even millions of POST requests. When I
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impetus DDOS applicationis

Impulsus strata applicationis DDoS, et quomodo possint minuendi

DDoS (distributus negatio ministerii) et DoS (negatio ministerii) impetus possunt late classificari in tres categorias secundum strata OSI exemplum quae petunt: stratum retis (Stratum 3), stratum translationis (Stratum 4), et stratum applicationis (Stratum 7). Stratum 3 et Stratum 4 impetus plerumque minus complexi sunt–quamquam possint…
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Web Application Firewall (WAF)

The WAF is dead, long live the WAF!

The web application firewall (WAF) is a security tool used to guard against unwanted access to web applications. It is often a security device that sits on top of a web server and guards against threats from the internet or from beyond the network perimeter. Unlike Layer 3 (Network) et Stratum 4 (Transport) firewalls, which
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