Temporal Lensing and its Application in Pulsing Denial-of-Service Attacks

TitleTemporal Lensing and its Application in Pulsing Denial-of-Service Attacks
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2015
AuthorsRasti, R., Murthy M., Weaver N., & Paxson V.
Other Numbers3768
Abstract

We introducetemporal lensing: a technique thatconcentrates a relatively low-bandwidth flood into a short, high-bandwidth pulse. By leveraging existing DNS infrastructure,we experimentally explore lensing and the properties of thepulses it creates. We also empirically show how attackers canuse lensing alone to achieve peak bandwidths more than anorder of magnitude greater than their upload bandwidth. Whileformidable by itself in a pulsing DoS attack, attackers can alsocombine lensing with amplification to potentially produce pulseswith peak bandwidths orders of magnitude larger than their own.

Acknowledgment

This work was partially supported by funding provided to ICSI through National Science Foundation grant CNS : 1237265 (“Beyond Technical Security: Developing an Empirical Basis for Socio-Economic Perspectives”). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors or originators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

URLhttp://icir.org/vern/papers/lensing.oak15.pdf
Bibliographic Notes

Proceedings of the 36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Jose, California

Abbreviated Authors

R. Rasti, M. Murthy, N. Weaver, and V. Paxson

ICSI Research Group

Networking and Security

ICSI Publication Type

Article in conference proceedings