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Mar 2022
15m 31s

The Many Ways of DDoS | Russia-Ukraine C...

Hussein Nasser
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The Russia-Ukraine Cyberwar has reached a peak this past week. In this video I explain the multiple ways a Denial of Service attacks can happen and how to protect against them Intro 0:00 What is DOS? 1:00 Long running requests 1:42 Crash backend processes 3:30 Exhaust Max connections 4:25 Large response (web traffic) 5:42 Lots of requests 8:27 Complex reques ... Show More
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