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  • 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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    Operation Blackout

    Operation Global Blackout (or simply Operation Blackout) was an alleged plan by Anonymous to flood the world’s 13 root domain name service (DNS) servers with traffic, effectively “shutting off” the Internet by disabling the ability for a web address to be translated into an IP through DNS. The attack was scheduled for March 31st, 2012, but never actually took place as planned.

    According to an Anonymous Pastebin message, the plan was to use a form of a DNS Amplification Attack known as Ramp (or Reflective Amplification), effectively turning the DNS servers on themselves by forcing them to return a large amount of DNS query reply traffic back to their own (spoofed) IP addresses. Despite security researchers’ disbelief that the attack would succeed, the warning of such an attack was enough to drive engineers and computer security professionals into preventative mode, ensuring that the root DNS servers would be able to handle a large attack.

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    #

    • #OpIsrael
    • #RefRef

    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
    • Web Application Security
    • Worm

    X

    • XerXeS

    Y

    No terms currently listed.

    Z

    • Zeus
    • Zero-Day/Zero-Minute Attack
    • Zombie
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