A university's admissions portal is knocked offline by traffic arriving from tens of thousands of different IP addresses around the world at once. Why is this harder to stop than an attack from one source?
Le portail d'admission d'une université est mis hors ligne par du trafic provenant simultanément de dizaines de milliers d'adresses IP différentes dans le monde. Pourquoi est-ce plus difficile à arrêter qu'une attaque venant d'une seule source ?
Answers
ABecause all of the attack traffic is encryptedParce que tout le trafic d'attaque est chiffré
BBecause the portal happens to use HTTPSParce que le portail utilise HTTPS
CBecause the attack takes place at nightParce que l'attaque a lieu la nuit
DBlocking one address hardly reduces the floodBloquer une adresse réduit à peine le flot venant de toutes les autres
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