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Could a new breed of DOS attacks make the cloud unaffordable? |
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Source: Government Computer News - Posted by Anthony Pell
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The cloud is the current Next Big Thing in computing, and the Next Big Thing in attacks could be a new breed of economic denial-of-service attacks intended to use up resources and drive up the cost of cloud computing, warns a senior security researcher at Adobe Systems.
“DOS is the next battleground,” Bryan Sullivan said Wednesday at the Black Hat Federal conference being held in Arlington, Va. “That’s where the future is going.”
The new generation of attacks described by Sullivan operate high in Layer 7, the application layer of the Open Systems Interconnection model, and target specific lines of code in a specific application. Although the impact is less widespread than a traditional Layer 4 distributed DOS attack using the resources of a botnet, it is highly targeted and effective. A single HTTP request of several hundred bytes could crash a server.
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