{"id":748475,"date":"2013-04-26T11:20:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T15:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=226935"},"modified":"2013-04-26T11:20:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T15:20:35","slug":"this-is-what-a-ddos-attack-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/748475","title":{"rendered":"This Is What A DDoS Attack Looks Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/anonymous-defaces-nambla-web-site-as-part-of-opalice-2013-04\">weapon of choice for many hacktivists<\/a> is the distributed denial of service, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/tag\/ddos\">DDoS<\/a>, attack. In essence, multiple users flood a server with so much traffic that it collapses under the load taking the Web site with it. It&#8217;s easy enough to understand, but a visual representation would really sell the awesome might of this particular form of online attack. <\/p>\n<p>We now have that visual representation courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/lfauvet?feature=watch\">Ludovic Fauvet<\/a>. He says that his Web site, VideoLAN, experienced a massive DDoS attack on April 23. He was able to capture what the attack looked like in real time: <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"616\" height=\"462\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hNjdBSoIa8k?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s great about this video is that it shows the number of requests hitting the other parts of the site at the same time. As thousands of requests are hitting the &#8216;Misc&#8221; section of the site, you see maybe 20 hit the &#8220;Images&#8221; section. <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, DDoS attacks rarely cause lasting damage. The Web site is usually back up and operational after that attack subsides. Still, it&#8217;s awe inspiring to see this much power being conveyed over the Internet. <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=_W7Qo4WuJuM:_75Rue7mAiw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=_W7Qo4WuJuM:_75Rue7mAiw:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=_W7Qo4WuJuM:_75Rue7mAiw:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=_W7Qo4WuJuM:_75Rue7mAiw:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=_W7Qo4WuJuM:_75Rue7mAiw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=_W7Qo4WuJuM:_75Rue7mAiw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=_W7Qo4WuJuM:_75Rue7mAiw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=_W7Qo4WuJuM:_75Rue7mAiw:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=_W7Qo4WuJuM:_75Rue7mAiw:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/_W7Qo4WuJuM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weapon of choice for many hacktivists is the distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack. In essence, multiple users flood a server with so much traffic that it collapses under the load taking the Web site with it. It&#8217;s easy enough to understand, but a visual representation would really sell the awesome might of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38Ib","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}