Reading Notes

Reading notes from my Kobo and Kindle

Book 2: Radware's DDoS Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Everything You Need to Know about DDoS Attacks

I finished this book in one sitting and found it an interesting insight into how blue teamers need to think about attacks. From a pentester’s perspective, it gave me a whole bunch of ideas for tooling to build.

One of the most interesting parts of the book was learning about Slowiris and R.U.D.Y. (R U dead yet?) DoS attacks that slowly attack a network with large HTTP requests or with extremely large form POST requests, which are hard to detect for blue teams.

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I decided to try my hand on building such a tool which I’ll be making public on my instance of Forgejo once it is finished.