Does a DDoS Attack affect the internet connection apart from the service it’s attacking?

Lately I’ve been experiencing some crashes related to my internet connection, I’m on the process of pin-pointing what is causing the issue and one of those possible causes might be a DDoS attack, mostly because of the symptoms resemble wha… Continue reading Does a DDoS Attack affect the internet connection apart from the service it’s attacking?

Trying to understand HTTP request containing base64 encoded part and email address

I have public webserver serving static html pages and when analyzing error logs I found type of attempted GET that I don’t understand.
They are formed like this and fail because request is too long:
/data=04|01|firstname.lastname@example.c… Continue reading Trying to understand HTTP request containing base64 encoded part and email address

What are the most common client info when accessing website?

I want to know client information when accessing my website as an identifier so I can filter who are deserve to access my website.
So far I only know this useful information from client those are User-Agent and Client Public IP Address.
Wh… Continue reading What are the most common client info when accessing website?