Month: March 2023

credential stuffing

Credential stuffing is no DDoS!

Këtë e kam dëgjuar shumë herë gjatë disa viteve të fundit: dikush po përjeton një sulm të rëndë DDoS në faqen e tij të internetit. Kur i pyes se çfarë lloj sulmi po përjetojnë, Përgjigja është zakonisht se njerëzit e këqij po u dërgojnë atyre mijëra apo edhe miliona kërkesa POST. When I
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application ddos attacks

Application layer DDoS attacks, and how they can be mitigated

DDoS (distributed denial of service) and DoS (denial of service) attacks can be broadly classified into three categories based on the layers of the OSI model they target: network layer (Layer 3), transport layer (Layer 4), and application layer (Layer 7). Layer 3 and Layer 4 attacks are typically less complexeven though that they might
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Web Application Firewall (WAF)

The WAF is dead, long live the WAF!

The web application firewall (WAF) is a security tool used to guard against unwanted access to web applications. It is often a security device that sits on top of a web server and guards against threats from the internet or from beyond the network perimeter. Unlike Layer 3 (Network) and Layer 4 (Transport) firewalls, which
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