The Many Ways of DDoS | Russia-Ukraine Cyberwar

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Episode | Podcast

Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2022 19:55:17 GMT

The Russia-Ukraine Cyberwar has reached a peak this past week. In this video I explain the multiple ways a Denial of Service attacks can happen and how to protect against them Intro 0:00 What is DOS? 1:00 Long running requests 1:42 Crash backend processes 3:30 Exhaust Max connections 4:25 Large response (web traffic) 5:42 Lots of requests 8:27 Complex request (Regex bug) 9:57 Prevention 12:27