Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Back to the Future - Economies of Scale Techniques from 2008 Still in Use Today

Submitted by Ryan Barnett 6/15/2010

What is old is new again... While tracking a number of recent stories for the WASC Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) Project, I noticed a striking trend - many of the current attack trends (Mass SQL Injection Bot attacks, Botnet Herding of Web servers for DDoS and targeted attacks against Service/Hosting Providers), we actually first highlighted back in 2008.

Here are a few recent WHID entries for these three issues -


We highlighted these three specific attack methodologies in the 2008 WHID Report in the "Economies of Scale" section at the end of the the following OWASP AppSec WHID presentation given by Ofer Shezaf. Pay particular attention to the last 10 minutes as all three of these techniques are still relevant today.



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