Danish telecom company TDC Group says BlackNurse DDoS attack can be blunted by configuration changes. Attack doesn’t rely on crushing volumes of junk data traffic but rather a stream of data packets that are computationally intensive for firewalls to process. The attack is different than an ICMP flood, where an attacker tries to take down a server by sending many packets. In October, web users found it difficult to reach services, including Spotify and Twitter, after a DDoS.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/how-one-laptop-could-jam-enterprise-firewalls-a-9527