A Recursive GET attack is a variant of the Excessive Verb attack, or HTTP Flood, in which attackers send huge amounts of legitimate HTTP requests to a server to overwhelm it so that it will deny service to legitimate users. These can be in the form … [Read more...] about Recursive GET and Random Recursive GET Attacks: What’s the Difference?
Excessive Verb Flood
What is an HTTP Flood?
In a HTTP Flood, attackers send vast numbers of legitimate HTTP requests to a server. The request can either be “GET” or “POST”. The goal of this kind of DDoS attack is to force the server to allocate so many of its resources to serving the attack … [Read more...] about What is an HTTP Flood?