Showing posts with label DOS Attack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DOS Attack. Show all posts
Monday, May 16, 2011
Robert Hansen, a guru in the field of security, has released a new tool for DoS-attacks, exposing serious Web server’s vulnerabilities including Apache and other servers.
Hansen called his tool Slowloris
, the most interesting in this utility that it can cause a DoS attack without using a huge amount of traffic as we usually find in other DoS tools.
, the most interesting in this utility that it can cause a DoS attack without using a huge amount of traffic as we usually find in other DoS tools.According to Hansen typically 1000 machine are required to crash down a web server by bombarding the site with traffic but for Slowloris is not the case because it takes up all the available connection for the server by sending unlimited http requests without closing those connections and this makes Apache waiting for the response too long. Apache web servers do have a limit for number of threads which can be used to deplete the memory and cause defacement.
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