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Traditional DDoS attacks such as UDP Flood, Syn Flood and ICMP Flood work by exhausting network resources. Today some DDoS attacks (like the one described by Litan or those launched by hacktivists Op Ababil against US financial institutions) target the HTTP layer and above. These attacks bypass standard DDoS defenses such as firewalls, Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) since they make use of requests that are well behaved at the network protocol level. The post The Changing Landscape of DDoS …. appeared first on Speaking of Security - The RSA Blog and Podcast. |
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