Friday, November 5, 2010

DDoS attacks by agentless botnets







 Interesting article on http protocol flaws that could result in DDoS attacks by agentless botnets: 


 A flaw in the HTTP protocol leaves the door open for attackers to wage a new form of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that floods Web servers with very slow HTTP "POST" traffic.

http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability_management/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228000532

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