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  • We often receive DDoS attacks on our website. Could you please provide a tutorial on how to deploy it on Vercel?

  • @周林锋 DDoS attacks are typically mitigated at the ISP or Firewall level, and should not be actioned at the server level ideally - however, most of this depends on the type of DDoS attack.

    For example, Layer 2 and 3 type attacks (Data and Network from the OSI Model) should always be handled by any traversing path other than the server itself - see below

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    In this case, the ISP itself, or the firewall sitting in front of the server should have mitigation processes in place to prevent this type of attack hitting your server directly. Layer 7 attacks are different in their approach, and typically target the application directly. To avoid this, you should deploy a Web Application Firewall (WAF) that can filter out these types of attacks.

    Essentially, the “easy” choice here is Cloudflare, although I note that your server is potentially located in China, so this may not be an option - although AWS (operated by Sinnet) is available - more information here

    https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/new/2021/amazon-waf-available-china/

    If you can provide more information around the infrastructure you have (not here, but via PM for security reasons), I can guide you further.

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    @mike-jones Hi Mike,

    There are multiple answers to this, so I’m going to provide some of the most important ones here

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    @mike-jones said in Securing javascript -> PHP mysql calls on Website:

    i am pretty sure the user could just use the path to the php file and just type a web address into the search bar

    This is correct, although with no parameters, no data would be returned. You can actually prevent the PHP script from being called directly using something like

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    Obviously, access requests coming directly are not going via your chosen route, therefore, the connection will die because MyConst does not equal TRUE

    @mike-jones said in Securing javascript -> PHP mysql calls on Website:

    Would it be enough to just check if the number are a number 1-100 and if the drop down is one of the 5 specific words and then just not run the rest of the code if it doesn’t fit one of those perameters?

    In my view, no, as this will expose the PHP file to SQL injection attack without any server side checking.

    Hope this is of some use to start with. Happy to elaborate if you’d like.