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Mail Bombing : Theoretical Denial of Service Attack |
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Written by |PaRiS|
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Monday, 02 May 2005 |
Mail
"Bombing" is perhaps one of the oldest and certainly considered one of
the "lamest", that is to say; ineffective and immature, methods of
"attack" available to the would-be "script kiddie" or otherwise
malicious user online. Simply dating back to the first time someone
realised hundreds of irrelevant emails sent to someone else's inbox
could be an extreme, and most importantly time wasting, annoyance. The
theory behind the attack is relatively simple; flood your chosen
targets inbox with as many junk emails as possible over a given time
vector; for example an attacker may devote a few hours run time to
sending the "bomb". In
practise the attack is easily achieved with varying degree's of success
by any number of specifically designed programs able to send thousands,
if not tens of thousands, of emails on command over a relatively short
space of time.
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Written by Luminaire
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Thursday, 24 February 2005 |
DNS, or the domain name system is one of the core protocols on the internet. Without DNS we would all be stuck remembering the addresses of our favorite web and mail servers. While being a key part of the internet, DNS still remains out of view from the majority of internet users.
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Introduction to Denial Of Service |
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Written by hakimkt
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Wednesday, 26 January 2005 |
In this paper I have tried to answer the following questions:
- What is a
denial of service attack?
- Why would someone crash a system?
- How can
someone crash a system.
- How do I protect a system against denial of
service attacks?
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