Temporal Lensing and its Application in Pulsing Denial-of-Service Attacks
Title | Temporal Lensing and its Application in Pulsing Denial-of-Service Attacks |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2015 |
Authors | Rasti, R., Murthy M., Weaver N., & Paxson V. |
Other Numbers | 3768 |
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. |
URL | http://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 |