Autumn Term (2006-2007)

Securing Availability (Year 3 Computing)

Lecture slides on “Securing Availability”, Vrizlynn L. L. Thing

• 4 pages/sheet
• IP Marking slides
• Exercise and Solution

Recent news regarding attacks on availability

-         Feb. 2004, Hacker threats to bookies probed, BBC Technology News

-         Mar. 2005, Duo charged over DDoS for hire scam, The Register

-         Mar. 2005, Dutch hackers sentenced for attack on government sites, The Register

-         Apr. 2005, Rootkit Web sites fall to DDoS attack, IDG News Service

-         May 2005, Extortion via DDoS on the rise, Network World

-         Sept. 2005, Hackers Admit to Wave of Attacks, Wired

-         Dec. 2005, Man admits to eBay DDoS attack, The Register

-         Jan. 2006, Blackmailers try to black out Million Dollar Homepage, CNET News

-         Jan. 2006, 'Botmaster' pleads guilty to computer crimes, Reuters

-         Mar. 2006, VeriSign reports a “new DDoS attack”, The Inquirer

Some references used in slides

• Haining Wang, Danlu Zhang, and Kang G. Shin, "Detecting SYN flooding attacks", IEEE INFOCOMM, 2002.
• Jelena Mirkovic, "D-WARD: DDoS Network Attack Recognition and Defence", PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, Jun. 2003.
• Thomer M. Gil and Massimiliano Poletto, "MULTOPS: a data-structure for bandwidth attack detection", 10th USENIX Security Symposium, Feb. 2001.
• Stefan Savage, et al., "Practical Network Support for IP Traceback", ACM Sigcomm, Aug. 2000.
• Steve Bellovin, Marcus Leech, and Tom Taylor, "ICMP Traceback Messages", IETF Internet Draft, Version 4, Feb. 2003 (Work in progress).
• Ari Juels and John Brainard, "Client puzzles: A cryptographic countermeasure against connection depletion attacks", Networks and Distributed Security Systems, Feb. 1999.
• Vrizlynn L. L. Thing, Henry C. J. Lee, and Morris Sloman, "Traffic Redirection Attack Protection System (TRAPS)", IFIP International Information Security Conference (SEC), May 2005, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, Springer-Kluwer.

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