This paper presents the design and implementation of a filter-based DoS defense system
(StopIt) and a comparison study on the effectiveness of filters and capabilities. Central to the …

This paper presents the design and implementation of a filter-based DoS defense system
(StopIt) and a comparison study on the effectiveness of filters and capabilities. Central to the …

Volumetric Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been a recurrent issue on the
Internet. These attacks generate a flooding of fake network traffic to interfere with targeted …

Large-scale distributed denial of service (DoS) attacks are an unfortunate everyday reality
on the Internet. They are simple to execute and with the growing prevalence and size of …

Internet distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are prevalent but hard to defend
against, partially due to the volatility of the attacking methods and patterns used by attackers …

Large botnet-based flooding attacks have recently demonstrated unprecedented damage.
However, the best-known end-to-end availability guarantees against flooding attacks require …

The common use of computers, connected to the Internet, as well as insufficient level of
security, allow malefactors to execute large-scale infrastructure attacks, engaging in criminal …

As the prevalence of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices becomes more and more dominant, so
too do the associated management and security challenges. One such challenge is the …

Despite continuous defense efforts, DDoS attacks are still very prevalent on the Internet. In
such arms races, attackers are becoming more agile and their strategies are more …

Today botnets are responsible for most of the DDoS attacks on the Internet. Understanding
the characteristics of such DDoS attacks is critical to develop effective DDoS mitigation …