As the world becomes increasingly connected and the number of users grows exponentially
and “things” go online, the prospect of cyberspace becoming a significant target for …

Reflective amplification attacks are a powerful tool in the arsenal of a DDoS attacker, but to
date have almost exclusively targeted UDP-based protocols. In this paper, we demonstrate …

We introduce a novel SIP based attack, named as the SR-DRDoS attack, that exploits some
less known SIP features by using the IP-spoofing technique, the reflection based attack logic …

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and its underlying Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) are
widely deployed technologies since they provide an efficient and fast means of both voice …

In this paper an investigation was conducted to have an insight into the impact of the DDoS
attack on the network efficiency of the University of Zakho, in particular, after deploying a …

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a popular distributed storage system, with
worldwide presence. Due to the open nature and distributed routing of IPFS, malicious users …

Amplification-based distributed denial of service attacks (ADDoS) are a common and severe
threat to the Internet. Recent reports of ADDoS attacks demonstrate that such attacks not …

Denial of Service (DoS), and their larger-scale variant Distributed DoS (DDoS), attacks seek
out and exploit various network vulnerabilities in order to overwhelm a node to the point of …

An instant messaging service designed using a peer to peer distributed network architecture
has many appealing properties it gets for free: high scalability, cheap operational cost and …

This thesis evaluates the potential for deploying defense against distributed denial of service
(DDoS), as is a well-known cyber threat which when deployed causes great damage to a …