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Originally Posted by zargon05
You forgot about DDoS ^^
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DDOS
No matter who you are you will always be a possible target for Denial of Service attacks.
Now if we were running a real game or a inportent website we COULD have the risk of getting a 50K zombie comp attack. Fortunately all we relay have to worry about is 10-100 attacks (the largest attack being on evo and it was assumed it was a paied attack)
Ok, one attack choice hackers have is the SYN attack. In a SYN Flood, the attack works by overwhelming the protocol handshake that has to happen between two Internet-aware applications. How can we stop this. We don't need a high power application just a firewall that scans trafic and blocks bad internal IPs.
Next up is some good applecations that stop a DDOS 1 good application is
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Last is staying up to date with DDOS breakthroughs and the tools they use. I highly recomend checking this website once a day
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