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Denial of Service

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Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Brute force login: Simple protection techniques with the ModSecurity WAF Andrei Grigoras
The web-based login to your application is a juicy target for hackers. And once they get past the login, they can cause you some serious pain. If you have a WAF (Web Application Firewall), though,

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Reviews and Comparisons
15 reasons why you don't need a load balancer Malcolm Turnbull
OK time for another embarrassing confession, "For the last 15 years Loadbalancer.org has never needed to use a load balancer!" But that all changed when some hacker decided to attack our website.

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Blocking invalid range headers using ModSecurity and/or HAProxy (MS15-034 - CVE-2015-1635) Malcolm Turnbull
Microsoft quietly patched a fairly nasty little bug (MS15-034) in IIS last month: A simple HTTP request with an invalid range header field value to either kill IIS, reveal data or remotely execute code! We

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Simple Denial of Service DOS attack mitigation using HAProxy Malcolm Turnbull
Denial of Service (DOS) attacks can be especially effective against certain types of web application. If an application is highly dynamic or database-intensive it can be remarkably simple to degrade or cripple the functionality of

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Black Friday black out protection with HAProxy Malcolm Turnbull
The media industry had lots of fun at the expense of e-commerce outlets on Black Friday mercilessly reporting on site crashes and outages. My wife yelled that I needed to 'fix the Internet' when Argos.

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