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Anonymous comments as DOS attack

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on January 19, 2011 - 5:49pm
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in other news, some of our sites have been hit with a constant barrage of "?page=528&size=node550" tacked onto various urls, esp. images. It seems so purposeless thought it might be a smokescreen for an attack like POST /comment/reply/50/370 that he also sees.

Um, so yeah. Looking at the actual page showed that it was the unprotected anonymous comments, around 140,000 of them, that eventually started hurting our server...

Searched words: 
somewhere to look up recent attack vectors denial of service attack

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