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If an attacker wants to launch a powerful Low and Slow DDoS attack, surprisingly, he or she will find only a single tool in this bundle. That is the well-known Slowloris.pl Perl tool, which is not authored by Anonymous at all. R.U.D.Y and other slow POST tools are noticeably missing from this bundle. Another group…
Read MoreThe LulzSec attack of Sony Pictures is an illustrative example. Sony Pictures was running several prize giveaways as part of a marketing campaign. LulzSec used a basic SQL injection1 to breach the SonyPictures.com database and grabbed the usernames, passwords, and personal profiles of over one million registered users. They then dumped the data to Pastebin.…
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