Slowloris (computer security)
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slowloris-computer-security-184-10496041
title:
Slowloris (computer security)
text:
Slowloris is a type of denial of service attack tool which allows a single machine to take down another machine's web server with minimal bandwidth and side effects on unrelated services and ports. Slowloris tries to keep many connections to the target web server open and hold them open as long as possible. It accomplishes this by opening connections to the target web server and sending a partial request. Periodically, it will send subsequent HTTP headers, adding to, but never completing, the re
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Software for executing a denial-of-service attack
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris_(computer_security)
date created:
2009-06-26T21:59:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T08:16:56Z
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