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Types of DDoS Attacks

There are a few different types of DDoS attacks that can occur on your website. You need to figure out the type of an attack before you can block the fake traffic on your site. Let’s take a look at the different types of DDoS attacks. Volumetric Attacks These type of attacks target the bandwidth and leave no space for real users to visit a website. Once the bandwidth is full, it will crash your website or show an error. You cannot solve this issue by simply increasing the bandwidth. You have to mitigate the DDoS attack if you want to solve the issue. Read more:  Denial service attack Application Attacks The application attacks are hard to stop because they look like real traffic. These attacks are launched on specific application or servers until it becomes unavailable. These attacks do not target the whole website but rather a specific application. It’s slow to detect and the process builds up gradually until the application server crashes. Protocol Attacks Protocol...

What Is DDoS Attack And How To DDoS?

What is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack ? While working on a computer system there are several vulnerabilities which may cause system failure via several intruder activities. These activities include DDoS attack which blocks the network resources for its users through multiple sources. This article will give you a complete overview of how DDoS attack can be recognized, its types, techniques, prevention etc., in detail for your easy understanding. A DDoS attack is categorized into several types, but mainly there are 3 types only. Though the Brute Force attack is considered to be the most common way of a DDoS attack that generally comes from the botnet (It is a network environment that consists of devices infected with malware). It is better to understand that DDoS attack prevention is a fallacy. There is no specific technique defined for preventing it, the only thing you can do is to measure the damage caused due to this attack. Even a Firewall cannot provide suff...