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forza on Dec 7, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Slowloris - the low bandwidth, yet greedy and pois...

While interesting, this attack is old. A newer "variation" on this is with HTTP POST instead of headers.

http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability-management/16790102... http://www.owasp.org/images/4/43/Layer_7_DDOS.pdf

signa11 on Dec 7, 2010 [–]

yes that is exactly right. micahl-zalewski and adrian-llarion reported it here : http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456339/30/0/threaded, nevertheless, it definitely _is_ very interesting

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