Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks are becoming a common trend on our blog lately, and that’s OK because it’s a very serious issue for every website owner. Today I want to talk about a large DDOS attack that leveraged thousands of unsuspecting WordPress websites as indirect amplification vectors. Any WordPress site with XML-RPC enabled […]
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Layer 7 DDOS – Blocking HTTP Flood Attacks
There are many types of Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks that can affect and bring down a website, and they vary in complexity and size. The most well known attacks are the good old syn-flood, followed by the Layer 3/4 UDP and DNS amplification attacks. Today though, we’re going to spend a little time […]
DDoS Prevention: Protecting The Origin
One of the many great features that CloudFlare provides is protection from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. A malicious party who wants to make your website or web service unavailable could try to overwhelm it with requests from compromised machines (or bots) all around the world. With a large enough volume of requests, your […]
The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet
The New York Times this morning published a story about the Spamhaus DDoS attack and how CloudFlare helped mitigate it and keep the site online. The Times calls the attack the largest known DDoS attack ever on the Internet. We wrote about the attack last week. At the time, it was a large attack, sending […]
Good Web Security News: Open DNS Resolvers Are Getting Closed
This has been a rough week in the security industry with big attacks and compromises reported at companies from Facebook to Apple. We’re therefore happy to end the week with some good news: the web’s open resolvers, one of the sources of the biggest DDoS attacks, are getting closed. Sad State of Affairs Last October, […]
