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My site is inaccessible from different locations on-and-off. What's happening?
On-and-off for the last few days, my sites (www.)aderet.org and to a lesser extent (www.)saveadullam.org have been down from (two different networks in) Israel. Over a period of minutes or seconds, ...
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Protecting Apache and Nginx against slow read/write and similar attacks?
There are many articles explaining many ways to attack webservers (generic or specific) and even listing general rules for mitigating such attacks, e.g.:
Do not accept connections with abnormally ...
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DDoS attack case study - Korean election watchdog's site [closed]
Is it possible to break only some of a web site services using DDoS?
For example, disabling only the search feature of a specific website.
I raise this question following a controversy in South ...
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My website keeps being hit by iPhones…am I being DDOSed?
66.65.71.240 - - [05/Aug/2011:21:56:09 -0700] "GET /api/account_verify?accesstoken=k198nrtc7flswo6qhimuv5pd0 HTTP/1.1" 500 2334 "-" "Geolo 1.0 rv:18 (iPhone; iPhone OS 4.3; en_US)" "at:-" "dt:-" ...
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How do you deal with malicious IP's?
I'm trying to figure out how to protect my server against what it seems to be a botnet (I'm just guessing)
Everyday, more and more IP's fill my application logs with invalid request (eg: GET requests ...
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Single IP attack or other issue?
Description of incident:
I notice in my MRTG panel that httpd processes have climbed to 800 ( our maximum ), but all other parameters are normal ( cpu, memory, traffic )
I immediately ran a nestat ...
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DDOS Mitigation Services
Over the past week we have been a victim of two seperate ddos attacks varying in scale. The last one was very large and very hard to mitigate. We are looking at solutions from veriSign and Akamai ...
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Distributed web server to stop DDos attacks?
I have been thinking about a way to hinder DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks (which seems to be a hot topic at the moment) by placing a signed Java Applet on the web site. This Java Applet ...
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DDoS Protection Services - are they good enough?
first of all, I understand that it's better to have DDoS protections on data center level. But our DC is not ready to provide good quality of protection. So we thinking about using some external DDoS ...
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How to protect Lighttpd from DOS attacks and flooding?
I have a problem with Lighttpd because someone started to use some Web downloader from very good connection and it blocked my whole website. Is there any way to protect Lighttpd from DDOS attacks and ...
