The attackers are so determined they are asking everybody on the planet to download this program called Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC) and launch it against Amazon. In this post, we (UNIXY) will share a flaw in the program that we think can be used to mitigate the attack.
Update (2011-03-24): In this article. we’re discussing how we leveraged the smart Russian-built Web server Nginx to stop a DDoS attack. We’ve also experimented quite a bit with Varnish, another fine half-Danish half-Norwegian open source software, as a DDoS mitigation tool. It can be made to form the same constellation that we used for Nginx [...]
