The last setting that we would like to highlight is the fact that OnTrack does not have a Critical Service setting in place. Without a Critical Service, administrators have no way of stopping attackers from launching Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against the application. If your application is being targeted by a DoS attacker, it will be much harder for you to detect when your application is being attacked with a brute-force password cracking attack. The most important setting that we would like to point out here is the fact that OnTrack does not have a Critical Service setting in place. Without a Critical Service, administrators have no way of stopping attackers from launching Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against the application. If your application is being targeted by a DoS attacker, it will be much harder for you to detect when your application is being attacked with a brute-force password cracking attack.
What is a DoS Attack?
A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is an attack in which a system attempts to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely interrupting services of a host connected to the Internet. The interruption can be complete or partial, and it can last from just a few minutes to permanently. There are many types of DoS attacks:
- Buffer overflow attacks, where attackers send data that is too large for the memory buffer of the server's process, causing it to crash
- SYN floods, where attackers send packets with spoofed source IP addresses in a continuous stream
- HTTP floods, where attackers bombard servers with requests for Web pages
- TCP/UDP flooding, where attackers overwhelm servers with crafted packets of information that exceed the receiving server's bandwidth limits
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Published on: 09/08/2022 16:15:00 UTC
Last modified on: 09/14/2022 14:20:00 UTC