Sunday, January 19, 2020

DOS Attack Types







Volume-based DDoS attacks
ICMP Flood
UDP Flood
Ping flood

Protocol-based DDoS attacks
Ping of death: Attackers send malicious pings to a server, manipulating the IP protocols.
SYN Flood: The attacker continuously sends a lot of SYN packets to the victim. Victim waits for ACK packets, but they don't come.

Application Layer DDoS attacks:
HTTP Flood

TLS/SSL Vulnerabilities

POODLE:  The SSL 3.0 vulnerability is in the Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode. Block ciphers require blocks of fixed length. If data in th...