How We Found & Exploited a Layer 7 DoS Attack on FogBugz This article examines how the specific application behaviour we reported finding in Fogbugz early in July 2017 was manipulated to overload systems leading to a DoS situation. Testing for this vulnerability involved checking HTTP status codes, response size and timing.
Application Level Denial of Service – A Comprehensive Guide Application level Denial of Service attacks are designed to render systems unresponsive, denying the services for users. They are notoriously difficult to detect & prevent and underestimated. This comprehensive guide explains how to identify and remove the conditions necessary for DoS attacks.
