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Why is application crash considered insecure?
If an application crashes, the program stops and there is nothing anyone can do about it, other than starting the program again.
Crash is a bad behaviour in general and should be avoided, but why are ...
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How can I constrain or limit 3rd party Javascript (*.js) files that can DOS my site?
Many website owners integrate Google analytics, various Facebook or Twitter social media javascript plug ins into their web pages. The problem is that this trust seems to be "all or nothing", meaning ...
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How does CAPTCHA mitigate DDoS attacks?
This seems like an easy question, but I've failed to find an answer.
One of the uses of CAPTCHA is to cope mitigate Denial of Service attacks. Suppose an adversary performs excessive login attempts, ...
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What is a DoS Attack and how does it differ from a DDoS attack?
Can some one explain to me the concept of Dos Attacks for web applications ? Also what is the distinction between Dos and Distributed Dos ( ie DDos) attacks ? Wikipedia says :
In computing, a ...
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Is this a symptom of an attack (DoS/DDoS)?
I work for an e-commerce website in my country and this is the second time we suffer an attack. At least, looks like one.
We have a search functionality in our website and the supposed attacker is ...
