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  • Lamont Williams in reply to a comment from Slowloris

    Wolfson On Ferraro's Latest: "We Have Made Clear That We Reject Her Remarks" 2009

  • Slowloris must wait for all the sockets to become available before it's successful at consuming them, so if it's a high traffic website, it may take a while for the site to free up it's sockets.

    Darknet - The Darkside 2009

  • So it's a bit of a race condition, but one that Slowloris will eventually always win - and sooner than later.

    Darknet - The Darkside 2009

  • This is because other users of the system must finish their requests before the sockets become available for Slowloris to consume.

    Darknet - The Darkside 2009

  • Slowloris holds connections open by sending partial HTTP requests.

    Darknet - The Darkside 2009

  • Unlike an old school Denial of Service attack, which ties up a website by bombarding the thing with epic amounts of traffic, Slowloris achieves the same result with a handful of packets.

    The Register 2009

  • There are a lot of methods, example: Flood, Slowloris, ...

    Digital Point Forums Archimonde 2009

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