The application layer, however, doesn’t do applications. It provides services such as message or file transfer, directory lookup, transaction processing, etc., to the true user applications.

The largest application layer attack came in at 138,990rps (requests per second), slightly higher than in Q3, but there was a decline in the average attack size, with just 15.7% of attacks ...

Application layer attacks have been with us since the first internet-facing applications. However, a recent survey showed 89% of respondents admitted to an application attack in the past year.

The number of DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks that target weak spots in Web applications in addition to network services has risen during the past year and attackers are using ...

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.