DDoS Attack Looks Like an Intense Game of Pong

We've all heard of DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks bringing down web servers, but we bet most people can't really imagine what a DDoS attack looks like

Logstalgia visualizes web-server access logs as a pong-like game. As the app's official site says, it's a "battle between the web server and a never ending torrent of requests."

VideoLAN developer Ludovic Fauvet turned a recent DDoS attack on VideoLAN's server into a Logstalgia video that shows an amazing, one-sided fight between thousands of requests, with the web server desperately trying to keep them all at bay

This is exactly what happens during a DDoS attack: many computers (sometimes an entire botnet) send a lot of requests to a single web server, rendering it very slow or even completely unavailable Read more...