What is the billion laughs attack? The billion laughs attack is a Denial of Service or DoS attack that targets parsers of XML documents. The attack is also known as an XML Bomb, Exponential Entity Expansion Attack, or XEE Attack. Let's understand how the attack works...
What is the confused deputy problem? Let's look at a simple example first to understand the problem. Suppose a client sends the names of an input file and an output file to the server. The server compiles the input file and stores it in the output file. Let's also...
What is DHCP? The DHCP or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is a standardized network protocol that is used to dynamically distribute network parameters such as IP addresses to network devices. For example, when a network device in a network needs an IP address, it...
In the last article, we discussed how we can create a simple tool that can alert us when the system is having a sudden increase in network traffic. In this article, we will see that if a system is getting abnormal network traffic, then how we can analyze the traffic...
Be it a Ping Flood, SYN Flood, or any other DoS attack, the first step towards detecting a DoS attack is to detect an anomaly in network traffic on the system. That is the first-ever sign that can indicate the system may be having a DoS attack. If you can monitor the...
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