Disrupted by DDoS: Understanding the Attack That Marred Trump and Musk’s Interview and How to Safeguard Your Servers
It seems that during Trump or Elon musk’s twitter interview, the DDOS attack generated quite a few problems. So today, we will try to understand what a ddos attack is and how it causes damage to servers, and how we can protect ourselves from it.
DDOS Attck
Basically, it is an attack where a hacker or a group of hackers create multiple botnets, and the only job of these botnets is to send unlimited internet traffic to any server. These botnets can be easily developed, and most hackers use a large number of compromised computers to start sending traffic in unlimited volume.
Any internet servers that have applications running on them, such as X.com, consider this traffic as legitimate and start providing services. As a result, the actual or real internet traffic is left without obtaining services. Due to the excessive traffic, the servers suffer a severe impact, causing significant damage.
A DDoS attack typically consists of three layers: Volumetric Attacks, Protocol Attacks, and Application Layer Attacks.
- Volumetric Attacks: The first layer floods the entire network with excessive traffic.
- Protocol Attacks: The second layer takes advantage of weaknesses in the network protocol stack, consuming all the server’s resources by establishing half-open connections.
- Application Layer Attacks: The third layer sends overwhelming HTTP traffic to the targeted application.
How to Protect
If you want to protect against such attempts, you need to take 4 steps. First, always use traffic filtering, which means implementing good firewalls and intrusion detection systems to prevent malicious traffic from reaching the server.
Second, you can implement rate limiting. For example, if you set restrictions on how many requests a server can accept within a specific timeframe, this can significantly reduce malicious traffic.
Third, there are many specialized DDoS prevention services available that can absorb this type of traffic, allowing the server to provide services only to legitimate traffic.
Finally, if you divide your network across multiple servers and locations, you can better protect against large-scale DDoS attacks.”
