On Internet blowback
Guest Post: Measuring blowback — the phenomenon where a single probe to a target can generate multiple packets in response.
Tag: DDoS
Global DDoS-for-hire takedown
Guest Post: Measuring the globally coordinated disruption of DDoS services.
Mitigating DDoS using an anycast playbook
Guest Post: How to redistribute traffic between anycast sites during a DDoS attack.
Slammer: 20 years after
Guest Post: Where were you when SQL Slammer nearly broke the Internet? Could it happen again?
When clouds become reflectors
Guest Post: How cloud networks can be misused to carry out DNS-based reflection DDoS attacks.
IXP Scrubber: Learning from blackholing traffic for ML-driven DDoS detection at scale
Guest Post: How to semi-automatically generate large amounts of DDoS training data from IXPs.
Service exhaustion floods — HTTP/HTTPS flood, HTTP pipelining, and SSL renegotiation DDoS attack
Guest Post: Learn about three different types of DDoS attacks and how to defend against them.
ACC-Turbo mitigates pulse-wave DDoS attacks using programmable switches
Guest Post: ACC-Turbo is an open-source, pulse-wave DDoS defence system that runs at line rate, on programmable switches.
Router security in 2021
Guest Post: Cybercriminals now see home routers as gateways to corporate networks, and companies as potential attack vectors.
Industry, popularity effect if customers leave cloud providers following a DDoS attack outage
Guest Post: More popular websites are more likely to make changes to their name server records following a DDoS attack on their cloud provider.