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Re:Using Facebook Notes to DDoS any website by MichaelGG on Friday April 25, 2014 @07:46PM (#7649796)
He's using "outbound" traffic as a DoS metric which is sort of novel. I guess it looked better than "1000 HTTP requests"?
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Re:Using Facebook Notes to DDoS any website by chr13 on Friday April 25, 2014 @07:52PM (#7649822)
Actually the number of HTTP requests is 180,000+.
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Re:Using Facebook Notes to DDoS any website by MichaelGG on Friday April 25, 2014 @09:48PM (#7650081)
An an HTTP request requires what, 3 packets inbound? Just saying calling it a "DDoS" seems slightly generous.
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Re:Using Facebook Notes to DDoS any website by chr13 on Friday April 25, 2014 @10:05PM (#7650118)
We also have to remember that these requests are shared between 100+ Facebook server.
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Re:Using Facebook Notes to DDoS any website by aaronem on Friday April 25, 2014 @10:39PM (#7650184)
DNS amplification works on precisely the same principle.
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Re:Using Facebook Notes to DDoS any website by MichaelGG on Saturday April 26, 2014 @12:49AM (#7650480)
DNS amplification works by sending huge amounts inbound to a target and overwhelming them.
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