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A distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) occurs when multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers. These systems are compromised by attackers using a variety of methods.

A distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) occurs when multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers. These systems are compromised by attackers using a variety of methods.

For information on what to do about a DDoS attack that is underway, see How can I stop a currently active DDoS attack?

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Preventing DDOS/SYN attacks (as far as possible)

Recently my CENTOS machine has been under many attacks. I run MRTG and the TCP connections graph shoots up like crazy when an attack is going on. It results in the machine becoming inaccessible. My MRTG graph: mrtg graph This is my current…
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CentOS Server keeps grinding to a halt, then comes back up

CentOS 5.2 LAMP server The server slows down to a point where no services are responding. After a few minutes, it comes back and is running well. The server keeps doing this cycle, what could be wrong? I have stopped the exim and proftpd services…
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DDoS Network Protection Devices

In our office we're running a Cisco ASA 5510 firewall. Is this device enough if we want to protect against DDoS attacks? What devices (like cisco guard, etc) do you recommend and what's the user experience that you have with those devices? Regards,
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DDOS Mitigation Services

Over the past week we have been a victim of two seperate ddos attacks varying in scale. The last one was very large and very hard to mitigate. We are looking at solutions from veriSign and Akamai but the prices are so steep. I found a company…
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Looking for a good DDOS IPS system

Could I get some recommendations on an IPS solutions that incorporates some form of DDOS protection / what do you currently implement on your network? Thanks
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How to find systems with vulnerability which may later become agent for DDoS?

How to determine the systems with vulnerability, which scanning tool is best. The system should be identified so that it can be used as agent for DDoS. In a test bed environment I want to check this. Can anyone help?
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Is Apache mod_evasive really worthful

I read an article saying that apache mod_evasive is an old outdated module and does not real protection against Dos attack. After testing a scenario of load requests to a apache webpage it seems like it is really not protecting at all, although the…
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Detect website attack by using azure sentinel serviceazure

I have a website which builds on AKS. I'm getting DDoS and other kind of attacks in website. In order to take prevention against such attacks, I'm planning to use the tool Azure Sentinel…
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DDOS-Deflate won't update iptables

I am using DDoS-Deflate (https://github.com/jgmdev/ddos-deflate) in my CentOS 7 server. I installed it successfully. I use iptables as the firewall. The DDoS-Deflate bash script could detect abnormal http requests and log the IP. But the iptables is…
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Nginx received DDOS attack

My website received DDOS attacks (confirmed). I use Nginx as the reverse proxy server and have 3 WebApps (A,B,C) in the backend. The status is very strange. In DDOS status: Nginx cannot return backend (A and C) results and show 504, but can return…
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How to serve both static and dynamic content via AWS cloudfront?

I have a site hosted on a digital ocean droplet which serves both static and dynamic content. The static content (e.g. /images, /js, /css, /fonts) is served from an s3 bucket with folders /images, /js, /css, /fonts via cloudfront which has a path…
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Block IPs without receiving traffic

I'm hosting on OVH Game dedicated server, the bandwitdth of this server is 1gbp/s, I'm receinving attack from other OVH Servers and they are saturating the bandwidth with 1gbp/s. OVH doesn't filter these attacks coming from other OVH Servers.…
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Linux virtual machine network DDOS protection

I have dedicated server with installed virsh. On the server I have 5 virtual servers. When someone DDOS attack dedicated server is everyting ok. I hardly know it's an attack. But if someone attacks the virtual server, it is not possible to load the…
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No DDoS protection in favor of AWS Route 53

I'm in the beginning of creating a small CDN for our streaming server needs. I know, that there are multiple ways to route a user to an ideal server: Anycast for the whole HTTP traffic: Let the network in help of BGP figure out which is the ideal…
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OVH VPS as a reverse proxy - UDP DDOS attack causing invalid packets

I am using VPS from OVH as a reverse proxy to protect my dedicated server from DDOS attacks. OVH has very good DDOS protection. My dedicated server hasn't. Everything works good, I am attacking my VPS a lot via TCP attacks and OVH starts mitigating…
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