Three of the best: ‘How to…’
‘How to’ posts are a great way to learn how to use a new tool, troubleshoot problems, or perform advanced tasks. Here are three of 2024’s best.
Tag: DDoS
The rise of packet rate attacks: When core routers turn evil
Guest Post: Fresh insights into the growing threat of high packet rate attacks.
Collaboratively increasing the DDoS resilience of digital societies through anti-DDoS Coalitions
Guest Post: Collaborative DDoS mitigation — from research to operational practice.
Smargaft harnesses EtherHiding for stealthy C2 hosting
Guest Post: New botnet uses the Binance Smart Chain to host command and control servers and infect shell scripts like a virus to achieve persistence.
HTTP/2 Rapid Reset: Deconstructing the record-breaking attack
Guest post: Detecting and mitigating a novel attack vector at unprecedented scale.
On Internet blowback
Guest Post: Measuring blowback — the phenomenon where a single probe to a target can generate multiple packets in response.
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.