A crucial element of a DDoS attack is the ability to employ hundreds, thousands, or even millions of infected hosts to do the attacker’s bidding. The reasons are obvious – the end target(s) of the attack will find it more difficult to fend off the malicious traffic, and the attack is less likely to be [...]
READ MORE »DDoS Attacks, especially HTTP GET attacks can be crippling to a web server. These attacks can come in two varieties, large amounts of requests per second, or small amounts of requests per second from any given IP, so that it becomes difficult to distinguish between a legitimate request and one that is powered by a [...]
READ MORE »Here is another tutorial I came across on how to use LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) on how to do DoS attacks. Remember boys and girls, DDoS/DoS is a crime. Only do this/use this tool in a controlled lab environment and for educational purposes only. Tutorial on DOS using LOIC.
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Within the DDoS appliance space, those appliances that do DPI or session handling, it is very important to understand how the setup rates comes into play. Each appliance, be it DPI or Sessions based Proxy appliance or just plain Layer 2/3 Filtering devices, these devices have to look at traffic at very high speeds. Each [...]
READ MORE »Just announcted on the SecurityFocus (Penetration Testing) Mailing list: Description DDoS Simulator – DDOSIM simulates several zombie hosts (having random IP addresses) which create full TCP connections to the target server. After completing the connection, DDOSIM starts the conversation with the listening application (e.g. HTTP server). Can be used only in a laboratory environment to [...]
READ MORE »DDOS Attack – Now What? When you are hit with a distributed denial of service attack, your options can be very limited to mitigate it. First of all relax. No one is dying. No need to get panicky. Yes, you’re under attack, but like I said, no one is dying. When you get panicky and edgy, [...]
READ MORE »Riverbed Technologies recently filed for a patent that is related to network anomaly detection, more specifically: Connection Table for Intrusion Detection. The patent information filed can be read here. The summary of the patent filing is as follows: According to an aspect of the invention, memory device storing a data structure for tracking network behavior, [...]
READ MORE »One of the most important commands you will run on your server when under a DoS/DDoS attack is to find out the number of connection. There are many variations of such commands, and here is a great resource I would like to share that tells you the various commands and its meaning. You can visit [...]
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Written by Faisal Khan
Please Read Legal Disclaimer at the end of the article. Q. What is a Bot? A. A bot is a shortened terminology for the word robot – which in the computer networks world means ‘automatic’. Anything that does a specific function automatically, would be deemed a robot – or a bot for short. Most of [...]
READ MORE »Many people often ask what is a booter? How does it work? What is it used for? Is a booter used for dos/ddos attacks? Where can I get one from? etc. Here is a really great source to answer all your questions pertaining to a Booter. This specific FAQ deals with the Yahoo! Booter. This [...]
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In the world of Information Security, especially DDoS, Barrett Lyon is no stranger. Barrett was one of the co-founders of Prolexic (a company that specializes in DDoS Protection). Barrett recently launched a new venture, called 3Crowd. What intrigued me – is how I could possibly overlook a post by Barrett on his blog regarding DDoS. [...]
READ MORE »Borrowed from the link in this article, here is something I thought was cool. Its a DDoS script written for slowly, causing DDoS attacks. The script and its description can be accessed here.
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