Clarifying DDoS-related terms

I’ll be writing a bit more about DDoS attacks and security, and so I thought it would be handy to jot down some commonly used terms in one place. I’ll also look at how some of those terms are interrelated. The terms Spoofing As relates to TCP/IP, “spoofing” really just refers to forging some part of IP communications. You could, for example, spoof a source port to have response data thrown at a listening application that wasn’t expecting it, but generally we’re talking about forging the source IP address in an IP packet. ... Read more