{"id":39891,"date":"2016-11-24T00:50:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T06:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interventionit.wordpress.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2016-11-24T01:04:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T07:04:59","slug":"ddos-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/syndicated\/ddos-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"DDoS overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><em> --Originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/interventionit.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/24\/ddos-overview\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/interventionit.wordpress.com\">Intervention IT<\/a><\/a><\/em><br \/><\/p>\n<p>DoS is an attempt to make a server unavailable to users.<\/p>\n<p>Performed by overloading a server with requests.<\/p>\n<p>Include DNS and routing disruption.<\/p>\n<p>Includes using up disk space, processor power or bandwidth.<\/p>\n<p>Includes anything that allows a website to not be able to be displayed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distributed network denial of service.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cheap to launch and difficult to prevent.<\/p>\n<p>Performed by person or group with a grudge.<\/p>\n<p>Used as distraction from other hacking attempts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Protection:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Firewalls: Rules used to prevent traffic from the web.<\/p>\n<p>Switches y routers can also have Access control lists and rate limiting.<\/p>\n<p>Load management hardware\/software: Make sure there exists request balancing between servers.<\/p>\n<p>Use of proxies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Good quality server and hosting add more resistance to attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Make a reaction plan before an attack.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>While in attack:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Change ip to obtain some time.<\/p>\n<p>Make traffic = null.<\/p>\n<p>Be a good person.<\/p><br \/>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/interventionit.wordpress.com\/94\/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/48b0136320512f3922d0d62e25bc9839.jpg\" \/><\/a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/7440f05c36f5a6a93829f51fdcc3f2c4.jpg#038;blog=115674597&%23038;post=94&%23038;subd=interventionit&%23038;ref=&%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;Originally published at Intervention IT DoS is an attempt to make a server unavailable to users. Performed by overloading a server with requests. Include DNS and routing disruption. Includes using up disk space, processor power or bandwidth. Includes anything that allows a website to not be able to be displayed. &nbsp; &nbsp; Distributed network denial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/syndicated\/ddos-overview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DDoS overview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":39940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-39891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-syndicated","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39942,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39891\/revisions\/39942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}