Your PC became a DDoS client, what now?

September 1, 2008
Filed under Bulk

DDos stands for Distributed Denial Of Service and is one of the, let’s say most powerful and popular attacking methods of hackers and hacker-wannabes. For DDoS, the offender needs a high number of clients. Clients are common users’ PCs, which have a special malware installed.
To install this malware, the users have to click a link [...]

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What is a DOS attack and how to initiate it

August 30, 2008
Filed under Security, Server Management

The best method to deflect an attack is to understand how the offender planed his attack, thus you know what will happen next or how to stop a previous action.
This post is about the basics of a distributed DOS attack. DoS is the abbreviation of Denial of Service. I won’t list everything you need, not [...]

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