
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
The Many Ways of DDoS | Russia-Ukraine Cyberwar
Mar 7, 2022
15:31
The Russia-Ukraine Cyberwar has reached a peak this past week. In this video I explain the multiple ways a Denial of Service attacks can happen and how to protect against them
Intro 0:00
What is DOS? 1:00
Long running requests 1:42
Crash backend processes 3:30
Exhaust Max connections 4:25
Large response (web traffic) 5:42
Lots of requests 8:27
Complex request (Regex bug) 9:57
Prevention 12:27