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How To Test For And Mitigate BlackNurse Denial-Of-Service Attacks That Target Firewalls
A type of denial-of-service (DoS) attack that targets firewalls from a number of vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto and SonicWall was found to have resurfaced earlier this month. Unlike other DoS attacks that rely on pounding machine or network resource with large amounts of traffic, BlackNurse doesn’t require much bandwidth at all. Researchers have shown…