I recently came across a very nasty DoS attack that any script kiddy can execute – called slowloris. It involves sending partial HTTP packets while Apache2 patiently waits for an unreasonable amount of time for the remaining data while consuming a thread, doing so continuously will prevent Apache2 from opening more threads and serving potential [...]
Sintia, the suicidal MegaHAL IRC service bot I run for over 6 years on EFnet now have a twitter page! Sintia will be updating it regularly.
Check Sintia’s page here.