Re: [tor-talk] Layer-7 DoS Attack Against WWW Tor Hidden Service

2017-11-15 Thread George Kadianakis
bob1983 writes: >>> Is there a way to limit resource usage originated from a single Tor circuit? > >> There is no such functionality right now I'm afraid. People have been >> wanting some sort of functionality like that for a while: >> https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/777-Sto

Re: [tor-talk] Layer-7 DoS Attack Against WWW Tor Hidden Service

2017-11-14 Thread bob1983
>> Is there a way to limit resource usage originated from a single Tor circuit? > There is no such functionality right now I'm afraid. People have been > wanting some sort of functionality like that for a while: > https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/777-Stopping-Tor-Attacks.html

Re: [tor-talk] Layer-7 DoS Attack Against WWW Tor Hidden Service

2017-11-14 Thread George Kadianakis
bob1983 writes: > Hi. > > I'm the sysadmin of an unnamed computer club, we support online security and > privacy, so our website is available via a Tor hidden service. Recently, we > found a surge of CPU and RAM usage as soon as Tor has been started. A closer > look > showed it was the result of

[tor-talk] Layer-7 DoS Attack Against WWW Tor Hidden Service

2017-11-14 Thread bob1983
Hi. I'm the sysadmin of an unnamed computer club, we support online security and privacy, so our website is available via a Tor hidden service. Recently, we found a surge of CPU and RAM usage as soon as Tor has been started. A closer look showed it was the result of a DoS script, likely a broken