Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Dennis Galinsky, Brandon Mikelaitis, Michael Stanley Brandon Williams, Ryan Williams

Agenda Introduction Types of Attack Source of Attacks Prevention History of Attacks Business Aspect

Introduction  What is a DDoS / DoS? ○ Differences? ○ How do they work? ○ Why do them?  How do they Happen? ○ Types? ○ Sources? ○ Prevention? ○ Cost?

TCP Connection Attack (SYN FLOOD)  Normal Connection  SYN Flood

 HTTP Get Flood  HTTP Post Flood Application Layer Attack

Source of Attack  Botnets What are they? How are they Created? Notable Botnet Army’s ○ Storm ○ Rbot  For-Hire How much does it cost? Rent an Army Threat Level?

Prevention

History of Attacks  Anonymous Hacktivist Group (Civil Disobedience)  Lizard Squad PlayStation 4 Network, Xbox Live, Facebook  GitHub Attack Chinese Government, Replaced JS Code to Force reload pages  Happening Now Digital Attack Map

Business Aspect

Questions? Introduction Types of Attack Source of Attacks Prevention History of Attacks Business Aspect Demonstration

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