In the Summer of 2021, Microsoft announced that they stopped one of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded (Microsoft says it mitigated one of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded – The Verge) saying they were able to mitigate a 2.4Tbps Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack in August. This attack was a UDP-based reflection attack, which was …
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed an article about how to secure web applications which caught my eye, to be honest, the article was aimed at how to secure web applications the old-fashioned way and not considering the new approaches to deliver web applications. Therefore, I wanted to share some of my reflections since …
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s straight Last week, there was published an article from NETSCOUT Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations – January 2021 | NETSCOUT that publicly available RDP servers were used to do amplified DDoS attacks. From the article “When enabled on UDP/3389, the Microsoft Windows RDP service may be abused to launch UDP reflection/amplification …
A part of many Network admins day to day tasks involves mitigating DDoS attacks. And they come in many types of shape and size.But they are share a common goal, disrupting the service for the users. These types of attacks make the service unresponsive and therefore cannot service the regular users who actually need to …
