Top "Denial-of-service" questions

Denial-of-service (or DoS) is the intentional attack of a machine or resource, aiming to make unavailable to its intended users, often by overloading it with artificially crafted requests.

How to enable DDoS protection?

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service Attacks) are generally blocked on a server level right? Is there a way to block …

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Most Robust way of reading a file or stream using Java (to prevent DoS attacks)

Currently I have the below code for reading an InputStream. I am storing the whole file into a StringBuilder variable …

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Security implications of adding all domains to CORS (Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *)

It is said that instead of adding all domains to CORS, one should only add a set of domains. Yet …

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how to know if snort detects syn flood attacks since snort alert is not logging any thing

 I have snort running on Centos as IDS.  I am trying to test if snort can detect the syn flood …

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Best practices for preventing Denial of Service Attack in Django

What are the best practices in Django to detect and prevent DoS attacks... Are there any ready to use apps …

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Protect yourself against Dos attacks

This might be something more suited for Serverfault, but many webdevelopers who come only here will probably benefit from possible …

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Can I use AWS route 53 and Cloudflare at the same time?

Currently, I am using Route53 to manage my domains, subdomains etc. But I want to add DDoS protection to my …

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