The application layer is an exponentially expanding layer ... Enumeration attacks: What they are and how to prevent them User and network enumeration attacks help adversaries plan strong attack ...

Application layer attacks have been with ... than brute force distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks at the network layer. There are a number of tools that can detect coding vulnerabilities ...

“I think we will continue to see an evolution in the sophistication of application-layer attacks and we will see more and more of them,” Gaffan said. They won’t replace network-layer ...

A new denial-of-service attack dubbed 'Loop DoS' targeting application layer protocols can pair network services into an indefinite communication loop that creates large volumes of traffic.