Application Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks
Attackers have not, as yet, exploited the full range of vulnerabilities present in many online services - particularly attacks aimed at the application and data processing layer. With the rise of increasingly targeted and motivated attacks and attackers, these application level DoS attacks will inevitably be exploited for nefarious gains.
This paper gives an insight into application level DoS attacks and draws conclusions from that.
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