Monthly Archives: June 2009

Slowloris HTTP DoS: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

A new way of DoS attack has been released recently, called the Slowloris HTTP DoS, dubbed “the low bandwidth, yet greedy and poisonous HTTP client“. Slowloris holds connections open by sending partial HTTP requests. It continues to send subsequent headers … Continue reading

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‘We’ll Solve Clickjacking By 2017′

Remember clickjacking? Well, first estimates say we can abuse that until somewhere in 2017, when it _might_ get fixed. [snip]… it takes somewhere between 6 and 9 years for the bad guys to scale their exploits and cause enough damage … Continue reading

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