Denial-of-Service Attacks

Serverless Single Page Apps — by Ben Rady (54 / 67)

👈 Wire Attacks and Transport Layer Security | TOC | Deploy Again 👉

A denial-of-service (DoS) attack allows an attacker to overwhelm a traditional web application with malformed network traffic, intentionally slow clients, or lots and lots of requests. With just a basic understanding of how an app works, an attacker could create much more work for the app than it can handle, bringing one or more application tiers to a crashing halt and preventing any users from using the…