12-06-2016, 10:36 AM
(12-05-2016, 09:38 PM)karatekidmonkey Wrote: No, that is not true. Please read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
A brute force attack/port scanner is NOT a Distributed Denial of Service attack, whatsoever. It is CLEARLY stated in the article that DDoS/DoS attacks are "a cyber-attack where the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet.".
Think about it. Is a port scan/brute force attack a flood of requests that is intended to take a certain network resource down? No, it is not.
OSI 7 layer means application layer, so advanced DDOS firewalls protect against port scanning too
https://hostsailor.com/ddos-protection-and-mitigation/