by Baptiste Assmann | Feb 10, 2016 | HAPEE, HAProxy, layer7, security
One of the biggest security challenges that companies face in today’s modern climate is the POST attack. Unlike a more traditional “Denial-of-Service” attack, POST attacks target a servers logical resources – making them particularly powerful...
by Baptiste Assmann | Oct 14, 2015 | HAPEE, HAProxy
[ANNOUNCE] HAProxy 1.6.0 released Yesterday, 13th of October, Willy has announced the release of HAProxy 1.6.0, after 16 months of development! First good news is that release cycle goes a bit faster and we aim to carry on making it as fast. A total of 1156 commits...
by Baptiste Assmann | May 15, 2015 | Aloha, layer4, layer7, security
Les attaques par DDOS Il y a quelques temps, nous avions publié sur ce blog, un article expliquant comment utiliser un load-balancer pour se protéger contre les attaques de type DDOS applicatif:...
by Baptiste Assmann | May 8, 2013 | security
Apache Cdorked.A backdoor This is a pretty recent attack, using Cpanel to change the Apache httpd binary by a compromised one which embeds a backdoor. A few articles with more details are available here: *...
by Baptiste Assmann | Apr 26, 2013 | HAProxy, security
Brute force attacks Brute force is a pretty simple type of attacks: it consists of massively send requests to a URL with different parameter each time. The main purpose is to try to find the right parameter combination. Usually, brute force is used to discover...
