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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Save Yourself From Hackers as Performing “DDOS ATTACK”

Hey friends, hope you all are fine. Wanna know about DDoS…..If Yes than what are waiting for just read this article. Many DDOS attacks have been taken place by hackers. Here I will give you the information regarding DDos.

WHAT IS DDoS??

DDOS means “Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack”. DDoS is that in which a heap of compact computers attack a single server causing a denial of service attack.

Most of the websites get down because of this distributed denial-of-service attack. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a DoS attack that comes from more than one source at the same time. Now here comes the point that what is DoS attack?? I will let you know. It is a kind of attack that tries to make various resources of web unavailable to its users. This means when DoS attack then at that time the traffic on that website will either be slowed down or interrupted completely. Here are some attacks done by DDoS:-

LOIC

LOIC IS “Low Orbit Ion Cannon” which was designed by 4 affiliated hackers. It is a web stress tool. The primary tool being used by the script kiddies is Low Orbit Ion Cannon (loic). The most amazing thing about this tool that it is nearly unstoppable if it’s being used by a number of audience to target single website. Low Orbit Ion Cannon is an open source network stress tool for Windows.

Apache Killer

Apache killer is an internet threat. This script creates a number of threads that use multiple ranges of headers to exhaust memory on the Apache Server. DoS attacks had increased more towards apache. But a patch was released immediately after tool was introduced.

R-U-Dead-Yet

When apache killer was attacked Apache web servers, then a tool named R-U-Dead-Yet was seen in exploiting HTTP Post Request to attack an IIS server. R-U-Dead-Yet or RUDY Implements the HTTP DoS attack with form field submissions.

SlowLoris

Slowloris is a software that is written by Robert Hansen. SlowLoris is a big uncertainty By Apache2.

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