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

One solution available to virtually all network admins is to create a blackholeroute and funnel traffic into that route. In its simplest form, when blackhole filtering is i… See more