The document discusses denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, defining them as malicious attempts to disrupt services provided to users. It categorizes various types of attacks, including penetration, eavesdropping, and man-in-the-middle attacks, and outlines methods used to launch such attacks, like lbd.sh and slowloris.pl. Additionally, it suggests several protective measures, including firewalls, switches, and routers, that can help mitigate the effects of DoS attacks.

1. Denial of Service
Attacks

2. AGENDA
 “DoS Attacks” – What Is
 Types of Attacks
 How to Attacks
 How to Defend

3. WHAT IS “DOS ATTACK”
Denial-Of-Service Attack = DOS Attack is a malicious
attempt by a single person or a group of people to
cause the victim, site or node to deny service to it
customers.
 DoS = when a single host attacks
 DDoS = when multiple hosts attack simultaneously

4. Purpose“DOS ATTACKS”
 Purpose is to shut down a site, not penetrate it.
 Purpose may be vandalism, extortion or social action
(including terrorism) (Sports betting sites often
extorted)
 Modification of internal data, change of programs
(Includes defacement of web sites)

5. TYPES OF DOS ATTACKS

6. TYPES OF DOS ATTACKS
 Penetration
 Eavesdropping
 Man-In-The-Middle

7. TYPES OF DOS ATTACKS
Penetration
 Attacker gets inside your machine
 Can take over machine and do whatever he
wants
 Achieves entry via software flaw(s), stolen
passwords or insider access

8. TYPES OF DOS ATTACKS
Eavesdropping
 Attacker gains access to same network
 Listens to traffic going in and out of your machine

9. TYPES OF DOS ATTACKS
Man-in-the-Middle
 Attacker listens to output and controls output
 Can substitute messages in both directions

10. How to Attacks
 Using lbd.sh / Slowloris.pl both Command line
software
 Function Of lbd.sh :- Load Balancing Detector :-
lbd (load balancing detector) detects if a given
domain uses DNS and/or HTTP Load-Balancing
(via Server: and Date: headers and diffs between
server answers).
 Using Slowloris.pl Tool :- Slowloris is a piece of
software written by Robert "RSnake" Hansen
which allows a single machine to take down
another machine's web server with minimal
bandwidth and side effects on unrelated services

11. HOW TO PROTECT FROM DoS
Attacks
 Firewalls - can effectively prevent users from
launching simple flooding type attacks from machines
behind the firewall.
 Switches - Some switches provide automatic and/or
system-wide rate limiting, traffic shaping, delayed
binding to detect and remediate denial of service
attacks
 Routers - If you add rules to take flow statistics out of
the router during the DoS attacks, they further slow
down and complicate the matter
 DDS based defense