Simon Willison’s Weblog

Application-Layer DDoS Attack Protection with HAProxy (via) Thorough.

# 9th November 2018, 6:29 pm / haproxy, denialofservice

The Mirai Botnet Was Part of a College Student Minecraft Scheme. Fascinating story about last year’s Mirai botnet, which was originally developed to help corner the Minecraft server market.

# 15th December 2017, 3:18 am / security, denialofservice, minecraft

Django security fix released. Django’s internationalisation system has a denial of service hole in it; you’re vulnerable if you are using the i18n middleware. Fixes have been made available for trunk, 0.96, 0.95 and 0.91.

# 26th October 2007, 9:47 pm / django, security, vulnerability, python, i18n, internationalisation, denialofservice