DDoS Attack Definitions - DDoSPedia

DDoSPedia is a glossary that focuses on network and application security terms with many distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-related definitions. It provides a central place for hard to find web-scattered definitions on DDoS attacks.
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Ingress Filtering (InFilter)
This technique checks the validity of incoming network packets’ SRC IPs making sure the IPs are not spoofed, before the packets enter the network and possibly affect it.
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A

ADB Miner

Admin.HLP

Advanced Persistent Attack

Amplification Attack

Anonymous

Apache Killer

Application Misuse Attack

ARP Poisoning

Asymmetric Attack

B

Backdoor

BEAST

Booster Script

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Attack

Botmaster

Botnet

Boy-in-the-Browser Attack

BrickerBot

Buffer Overflow Attack

ByteDoS

C

CERT

Clean Pipe

Clearnet

Click Fraud

Clickjacking

CoAP

Command and Control Server

Conflicker

Cookie

Cookie Poisoning

Counter-attack

Cryptovirus

CutWail Botnet

CVE

Cyber Ransom

D

Darknet

Darkness (Optima)

DarkSky

Dark Web

Deep Web

Digital Fraud

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack

DNS Amplification Attack

DNS Flood

DoS (Denial-of-Service) Attack

DROWN

DrDos Attack

Duqu

Dynamic Web Injection

E

Exploit

F

Flame

Flood

Forged Cookie

FREAK

Fraggle Attack

Fragmented ACK Attack

G

Guy Fawkes Mask

H

Hacker

Hacktivist

Hijackware

HEARTBLEED

High-rate Attack

HOIC (High Orbit Ion Cannon)

Honeypot

Hping

HTTP

HTTPS

HTTPS Flood

HTTP Challenge

HTTP Cookie

HTTP Flood

HTTP Fragmentation Attack

I

I2P (Invisible Internet Project)

ICMP Flood

Impression Fraud

Ingress Filtering (InFilter)

Internet Pipe Saturation

IP Address

IP Spoofing

IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

ISP (Internet Service Provider)

itsoknoproblembro

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters

J

JenX

JS Cookie Challenges

K

Keylogging

L

LAND Attack

LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon)

Low-rate Attack

LulzSec

M

MalSpam

Malware

Man-in-the-Browser Attack

Man-in-the-Middle Attack

Memcached

Mirai

Mitigating Controls

Mobile LOIC

Morris Worm

MSSP

Multi-Factor Authentication

Mydoom

N

Naptha Attacks

Necurs

Network Scan

Nuke

O

Open DNS Resolver

Operation Ababil

Operation AntiSec

Operation Blackout

Operation Defense

Operation Killing Bay

Operation Payback

OpIcarus

OpIsrael

OpKillingBay

OpSingleGateway

P

Packet

Pandex Botnet

Password Spraying

Parasiteware

Peer to Peer Attack

Ping of Death

PitbullBot

POODLE

Port Scan

Pushdo Botnet

Putinstresser

Pyloris

Q

No terms currently listed.

R

Ransomware

Ransom DDoS

Rate Limit

RFI/LFI

Reflector/Reflective DoS attacks

Reflector server

Resident Virus

R.U.D.Y. (R-U-Dead-Yet?)

S

Scareware

Scrubbing Center

Session Hijacking

SIP Register flood

SIP Malformed Attack

SIP Server Flood

SIP brute force

SIP Client Call Flood

Slow-Rate Attack

Slowloris

Smurf Attack

Social Engineering

SSL

SSL Stripping

Sockstress

SQL Injection

SSL Garbage Flood

Stabuniq

Static Web Injection

Stuxnet

Supply Chain Attack

SYN-ACK Flood

SYN cookies

SYN Flood

T

Topera

Tor's Hammer

TOR

TCP Flood

Trin00

TheWikiBoat

THC-SSL DoS

Traffic

Trickbot

Trojan Horse

TDL-4 (Alureon)

TCP Window Scaling

Teardrop Attack

TLS

U

UDP Flood

V

Vulnerability

Vulnerability Scanner

W

WannaCry

Wireshark

Web Scraping

Worm

X

XerXeS

Y

No terms currently listed.

Z

Zeus

Zero-Day/Zero-Minute Attack

Zombie

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