Matthew Lafleur
Leslie Elliot
Science: History and Methodology
January 22nd, 2014
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This article highlights aspects of hacking websites, notable distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS attacks) and protections against them. The technology in question, Shape Shifter, is what is called a ‘botwall’ which stops hackers from making DDOS attacks by scrambling the web application code. This effectively makes the hackers incapable of making an attack against a single source as the source is constantly changing.
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