Denial of Service Attacks

• The Spoofer Project: Inferring the Extent of Source Address Filtering on the Internet (Proceedings of USENIX Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet Workshop, 2005)
• Analysis of Sapphire SQL Worm, January 2002.
• Overview of Attack Trends, CERT, 2002.
• Protecting Web Servers from Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
• DOS info
• GRC denial of service attack and a description using IRC bots
• Denial of service attacks
• On Cisco routers, source address spoofing is prevented using:

  [no] ip verify unicast reverse-path
  

  (unicast RPF)
• Craig Huegen's very useful web page on minimizing the effects of DoS attacks
• Cisco: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) News Flash, February 9, 2000
• Dave Dittrich's (University of Washington) very good analysis of the recent DDoS attack tools.
• NIPC (National Infrstructure Protection Center), TRINOO/Tribal Flood Net/tfn2k
• "Handling A Distributed Denial of Service Trojan Infection: Step-by-Step."
• Characterizing and Tracing Packet Floods Using Cisco Routers
• The World Wide Web Security FAQ
• An Analysis of Using Reflectors for Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks