It’s like hiding a network-layer attack behind an application-layer one. “Granted, some of the larger organizations today do have a 10 Gb burst uplink,” the Imperva researchers said.

With application-layer attacks there’s an ongoing race between the bad guys coming up with evasion techniques and DDoS mitigation vendors or the targeted companies coming up with remedies until ...

Application layer attacks, or layer 7 attacks as they’re often called, are typically part of a multi-vector DDoS attack target not only applications, but also the network and bandwidth.

Application-layer DDoS attacks are used by threat actors to target vulnerabilities or issues with an application so it can’t deliver content to a user. A good example of this is a DNS query ...

Application-Layer DDoS Attacks. First, a bit of background. Volumetric DDoS attacks ... It is clear that developers of attack tools are familiar with vendor mitigation technologies, as they offer ...

Optimizing Application Security. Protecting the application layer from these different attack methods is challenging. Keeping track of assets and where they reside is a crucial first step. This ...

The exposure of the application layer to the outside world makes it a prime target for a cyber attack. The application layer – layer 7 of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) communications ...

Application Layer Attack Trends Through the Lens of Cloudflare Data. Date: Wednesday, August 19th at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT The past few months have seen significant changes in how attackers target the ...

Gartner claims that 70% of all vulnerabilities are at the Web application layer. Indeed, the majority of attacks today, including the Sony PlayStation attack, involve some form of Web application ...

Security researchers have recently observed a large application-layer distributed denial-of-service attack using a new technique that could foil DDoS defenses and be a sign of things to come for ...