Slowcomm: Design, development and performance evaluation of a new slow DoS attack. (August 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cambiaso, Enrico; Papaleo, Gianluca; Aiello, Maurizio
• Is Part Of: Journal of information security and applications. Volume 35(2017)
• Page Start: 23
• Page End: 31
• Publication Date: 2017-08
• Subjects: Denial of service -- Lbr dos attack -- Cyberwarfare -- Slow dos attack -- Protocol independence; Computer security -- Periodicals; Information technology -- Security measures -- Periodicals; 005.805
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jisa.2017.05.005
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2214-2126

Abstract

Abstract: The Internet, a useful tool for communicating information, is now a pervasive and necessary infrastructure for modern economy. Accordingly, because of economic motivations, it became an arena for cyberwarfare and cybercrime. In this paper, we present the novel threat called SlowComm and we show how it can successfully lead a DoS on a targeted system using a small amount of attack bandwidth. Further, since the proposed attack is not bounded to a specific protocol, it can be considered a protocol independent attack, proving the ability it has to affect different Internet services.