An Analysis of DDoS Attacks on the Instant Messengers

Latest technologies of voice over IP (VoIP) and mobile messaging for smartphones messengers such as WhatsApp, Viber, Skype, etc., offer free-of-charge facilities of worldwide SMS, MMS, and voice calls to their users, unlike the traditional and expensive cellular or telephone networks’ services. Customers of the formerly mentioned messengers are estimated in millions because of the attractive features offered by them. However, these messengers face many cyber security threats and the required security features are either not available at all or are insufficient for efficiently countering the threats. Professionals working in the domain of cyber security are challenged by the devastating effects of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on all major platforms including Apple Macintosh, Windows, Unix, and Linux. In this paper, we demonstrate the effect of DDoS attack on the performance of an IRC server using a test bed. We use a game theoretic model to analyze the feasibility of DDoS attacks on the IRC platform, keeping in view the attacker’s objective. The analysis will help the security experts to propose appropriate countermeasures to reduce the attackers’ utility, thereby making it less attractive for those attackers to launch the attack.

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Cluster-Based Countermeasures for DDoS Attacks

Network Security Attacks and Countermeasures - Advances in Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8761-5.ch008 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 206-227

Author(s):

Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury ◽

Dileep Kumar G

Keyword(s):

Unsupervised Learning ◽

Network Traffic ◽

Denial Of Service ◽

Security Threats ◽

Distributed Denial Of Service ◽

Ddos Attacks ◽

Ddos Attack ◽

Real Progress ◽

Bandwidth Capacity

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is considered one of the major security threats in the current Internet. Although many solutions have been suggested for the DDoS defense, real progress in fighting those attacks is still missing. In this chapter, the authors analyze and experiment with cluster-based filtering for DDoS defense. In cluster-based filtering, unsupervised learning is used to create profile of the network traffic. Then the profiled traffic is passed through the filters of different capacity to the servers. After applying this mechanism, the legitimate traffic will get better bandwidth capacity than the malicious traffic. Thus the effect of bad or malicious traffic will be lesser in the network. Before describing the proposed solutions, a detail survey of the different DDoS countermeasures have been presented in the chapter.

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Towards Utilizing Blockchain for Countering Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)

Revolutionary Applications of Blockchain-Enabled Privacy and Access Control - Advances in Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-7589-5.ch002 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 35-58

Author(s):

Rochak Swami ◽

Mayank Dave ◽

Virender Ranga ◽

Nikhil Tripathi ◽

Abhijith Kalayil Shaji ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cyber Security ◽

Defense Mechanisms ◽

Denial Of Service ◽

Future Research ◽

Distributed Denial Of Service ◽

Ddos Attacks ◽

Research Directions ◽

Network Bandwidth ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

Network Administrators

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have been a matter of serious concern for network administrators in the last two decades. These attacks target the resources such as memory, CPU cycles, and network bandwidth in order to make them unavailable for the benign users, thereby violating availability, one of the components of cyber security. With the existence of DDoS-as-a-service on internet, DDoS attacks have now become more lucrative for the adversaries to target a potential victim. In this work, the authors focus on countering DDoS attacks using one of the latest technologies called blockchain. In inception phase, utilizing blockchain for countering DDoS attacks has proved to be quite promising. The authors also compare existing blockchain-based defense mechanisms to counter DDoS attacks and analyze them. Towards the end of the work, they also discuss possible future research directions in this domain.

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A Review on Various Sniffing Attacks and its Mitigation Techniques

Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ◽

10.11591/ijeecs.v12.i3.pp1117-1125 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 1117

Author(s):

B. Prabadevi ◽

N. Jeyanthi

Keyword(s):

Denial Of Service ◽

Vital Role ◽

Sensitive Information ◽

Security Threats ◽

Distributed Denial Of Service ◽

Ddos Attacks ◽

Man In The Middle ◽

Mitigation Techniques ◽

Detection Mechanisms

<p>Security in the era of digital computing plays a vital role. Of various attacks in the field of computing, Distributed Denial of service (DDoS) attacks, Man-in-the-Middle Attack (MITM) and data theft have their major impact on the emerging applications. The sniffing attacks, one of the most prominent reasons for DDoS attacks, are the major security threats in the client-server computing. The content or packet sniffer snorts the most sensitive information from the network and alters or disturbs the legitimate functionality of the victim system. Therefore it is extremely important to have a greater knowledge on these vulnerabilities, their issues, and various mitigation techniques. This study analyses the existing sniffing attacks, variations of sniffing attacks and prevention or detection mechanisms. The reasons for most vital Ransomware are also discussed.</p>

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Stability in the informal value transfer systems: norms of trust or institutions of control?

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2017-3-120-130 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 120-130

Author(s):

A. Lyasko

Keyword(s):

Social Control ◽

Institutional Economics ◽

Theoretic Model ◽

Transfer System ◽

Value Transfer ◽

Partner Interaction ◽

Game Theoretic ◽

Game Theoretic Model ◽

Informal Value Transfer System

Informal financial operations exist in the shadow of official regulation and cannot be protected by the formal legal instruments, therefore raising concerns about the enforcement of obligations taken by their participants. This paper analyzes two alternative types of auxiliary institutions, which can coordinate expectations of the members of informal value transfer systems, namely attitudes of trust and norms of social control. It offers some preliminary approaches to creating a game-theoretic model of partner interaction in the informal value transfer system. It also sheds light on the perspectives of further studies in this area of institutional economics.

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HULK and DDoS Attacks in Web Applications with Detection Mechanism

International Journal of Emerging Research in Management and Technology ◽

10.23956/ijermt.v6i6.268 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (6) ◽

pp. 192

Author(s):

Amit Sharma

Keyword(s):

Web Applications ◽

Denial Of Service ◽

Single Server ◽

Distributed Denial Of Service ◽

Ddos Attacks ◽

Application Layer ◽

Detection Mechanism ◽

Plan Execution ◽

Social Affair ◽

Server Application

Distributed Denial of Service attacks are significant dangers these days over web applications and web administrations. These assaults pushing ahead towards application layer to procure furthermore, squander most extreme CPU cycles. By asking for assets from web benefits in gigantic sum utilizing quick fire of solicitations, assailant robotized programs use all the capacity of handling of single server application or circulated environment application. The periods of the plan execution is client conduct checking and identification. In to beginning with stage by social affair the data of client conduct and computing individual user’s trust score will happen and Entropy of a similar client will be ascertained. HTTP Unbearable Load King (HULK) attacks are also evaluated. In light of first stage, in recognition stage, variety in entropy will be watched and malevolent clients will be recognized. Rate limiter is additionally acquainted with stop or downsize serving the noxious clients. This paper introduces the FAÇADE layer for discovery also, hindering the unapproved client from assaulting the framework.

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of A game-theoretic model for punctuated equilibrium: species invasion and stasis through coevolution.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.1012440.372002 ◽

2006 ◽

Author(s):

Vlastimil Krivan

Keyword(s):

Punctuated Equilibrium ◽

Theoretic Model ◽

Species Invasion ◽

Game Theoretic ◽

Game Theoretic Model

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Hollywood’s Movie Production Companies in Game Theoretic Model

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3609123 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Nargiz Mammadova ◽

Aygun Malikova ◽

Arzu Heydarova

Keyword(s):

Theoretic Model ◽

Game Theoretic ◽

Game Theoretic Model

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Classification of Cloud Systems Cyber-security Threats and Solutions Directives

Application and Theory of Computer Technology ◽

10.22496/atct20170227147 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Hanane Bennasar ◽

Mohammad Essaaidi ◽

Ahmed Bendahmane ◽

Jalel Benothmane

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

Cyber Security ◽

Data Security ◽

Denial Of Service ◽

Security Threats ◽

Huge Number ◽

Open Problems ◽

Long Period ◽

Near Future

Cloud computing cyber security is a subject that has been in top flight for a long period and even in near future. However, cloud computing permit to stock up a huge number of data in the cloud stockage, and allow the user to pay per utilization from anywhere via any terminal equipment. Among the major issues related to Cloud Computing security, we can mention data security, denial of service attacks, confidentiality, availability, and data integrity. This paper is dedicated to a taxonomic classification study of cloud computing cyber-security. With the main objective to identify the main challenges and issues in this field, the different approaches and solutions proposed to address them and the open problems that need to be addressed.

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Augmenting Employees’ Efforts in Innovation

Arthaniti-Journal of Economic Theory and Practice ◽

10.1177/0976747921989171 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 097674792198917

Author(s):

Nikita Jain

Keyword(s):

Theoretic Model ◽

Wrongful Discharge ◽

Equilibrium Level ◽

Game Theoretic ◽

Game Theoretic Model ◽

The Impact

Strong labour laws play a major role in motivating innovation among employees. It has been found in the literature that stringency of labour laws is positively linked with employees’ efforts in innovation, in particular, wrongful discharge laws (WDL). However, employees may also bring nuisance suits against employers. Usually, the result of these suits is that both parties settle with each other. Thus, even if employees are justly dismissed, they may be able to bring nuisance suits against employers and gain a settlement amount. This article investigates how the possibility of nuisance suits affects the impact of WDL on employees’ efforts in innovation. In this respect, a game-theoretic model is developed in the article to find the equilibrium level of employees’ efforts in the presence of nuisance suits, where there is a possibility of employees getting discharged from the firm. I find that if nuisance suits are a possibility, the stringency of WDL has no impact on employees’ efforts if defence cost of the firm is low; but for higher defence costs, WDL affects employees’ efforts. The efforts exerted by an employee are found to be weakly increasing in the defence costs of the firm.

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