The Makings Of A Facebook DDoS Attack

Some time ago I had the good fortune to work with some developers on a Facebook application that was underperforming. Through a very robust investigation of the application, it was discovered that a large number of invalid requests were being passed to the server. It was the victim of a Distributed Denial of Service attack utilizing Facebook platform and a popular application to bring down the application.

What Can a Developer Do?

Before instantiating ANY code, check your signatures! There are a number of ways to do this, but for starters, check the $_REQUEST['fb_sig_app_id'] and be sure it’s yours!
Spot check…


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