Re: Controlled DoS

[Adam Mooz <adam.mooz () gmail com>]

Hey Tibor

A DoS is essentially just overwhelming the capabilities of whatever service you're going after, so for web servers it's 
initiating a storm of connections, for SMB it can be attempting to login 1,000,000 times per second, etc...  You just 
keep using the resources until they're exhausted preventing anyone else from using that service.  With that in mind, 
doing a 'controlled' DoS is possible, just limit how many connections or attempts to exhaust the resources, and 
increase it until the service breaks.  

Hope this helps... 

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Adam Mooz
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On 2010-03-10, at 6:52 AM, Tibor Kaskoto wrote:

> Respected Members,
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> Is it possible to do a Denial of Service attack in a controlled way, e.g. in
> a penetration testing scenario? How can you control/limit the possible
> degradation of the client's services? Can you ask the client to corporate in
> terms of IDS/IPS alerts, or any sign of service degradation? How can you
> measure the success of the test if you are actually not allowed to break
> anything? What is the approach to a 99.99% availability requirement network?
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> Thanks & Regards,
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