November 15th, 2009 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua There are some points that can helps to carefully prepare our systems to avoid Distributed Denial of Service: 1- Prepare a simple and fast way to reboot remotely servers exposed to external network (webservers ,mailservers ,application servers..) this can be using SSH, we can also create a second network interface to access the server while [...]
August 9th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua On the 6th of August Twitter went down for a pretty long period. After a while a brief message was added on the Twitter status says they’re fighting off a DDOS attack right now. Well the most interesting that the distributed denial-of-service attack also affected Facebook, LiveJournal and Google’s Blogger. The idea of distributed denial-of-service [...]
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Tags: Botnet, DDOS, denial of service, DOS attack, Facebook, Google, Security, Twitter, windows 
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