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Sean Power

How the RangeAmp attack works

A few days ago researchers announced a new http request amplification DoS attack called RangeAmp. Amplification attack’s power lies in the ability to turn a few requests into many responses, or utilizing small requests that generate large responses. Amplification is an “old-school” attack;[...]

Jun 1st 2020

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Preventing Data Breaches

Data breaches happen. They happen across all industries, including Security Services as witnessed recently by Imperva’s Incapsula, and they show no signs of stopping. Your data, and I stress this is your data, can be classified as Public, Private, and Confidential. Public data is the information[...]

Sep 6th 2019

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What is HTTP 468?

Once upon a time DOSarrest used the same status code (403 Forbidden) to respond to any illegitimate traffic. For webservers this is sufficient, but sometimes people want to know why a request is forbidden. As we added more and more filters that 403 became less and less meaningful, so we started to[...]

Aug 1st 2019

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