Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)

This is a #rant post, TL'DR. In summary, you can just create a Chrome, Firefox, iOS, Android extension/plugin/app for free, let it grow bigger overtime and then just sell idle users bandwidth to Bot Net for profit. And you just put that somewhere in your looong ToS that everyone just presses "I Agree, get it over with and let me use the service already".

I’ve talked about testing few DoS tools that can put heavy load on HTTP servers in order to bring them to their knees by exhausting resource pools. GoldenEye is the first of those tools and it is one of the newest I discovered in GitHub. You can DoS websites with …

In computing, a denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, the motives for, and targets of a DoS attack vary, it generally consists of efforts to temporarily or indefinitely …

So you read newspapers? You know there was this massive DDoS (NTP amplification attack) attack last year? So, what about right now at this instance? Do you want to see Live DDoS attack maps that shows live DDoS attacks around the world? Watch in Awe the multi Gigabit DDoS attacks …