Thursday, December 29, 2011

Websites, apps vulnerable to low-bandwidth, bot-free takedown, say researchers - Computerworld


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Websites, apps vulnerable to low-bandwidth, bot-free takedown, say researchers
Computerworld
Net would consume 100% of one CPU core for 90-110 seconds. "An attacker could potentially repeatedly issue such requests, causing performance to degrade significantly enough to cause a denial of service condition for even multi-core servers or clusters ...
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