Showing posts with label http attack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label http attack. Show all posts

Monday, August 8, 2011

Captcha Based Protection against HTTP GET DDos Attacks


 especially HTTP GET attacks can be crippling to a web server. These attacks can come in two varieties, large amounts of requests per second, or small amounts of requests per second from any given IP, so that it becomes difficult to distinguish between a legitimate request and one that is powered by a botnet.