Sometimes referred to as a layer 7DDoS attack (in reference to the 7th layer of the OSI model), the goal of these attacks is to exhaust the target’s resources to create a denial-of-se… See more

This attack is similar to pressing refresh in a web browser over and over on many different computers at once – large numbers of HTTP requests flood the server, resulting in … See more

A SYN Floodis analogous to a worker in a supply room receiving requests from the front of the store. The worker receives a request, goes and gets the package, and waits for co… See more

A DNS amplificationis like if someone were to call a restaurant and say “I’ll have one of everything, please call me back and repeat my whole order,” where the callback number act… See more