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D. Moore, G. Voelker, and S. Savage, "Inferring Internet Denial-of-Service Activity", in USENIX Security Symposium, Aug 2001.
| Inferring Internet Denial-of-Service Activity | |
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D. Moore G. Voelker S. Savage |
| Published: | USENIX Security Symposium, 2001 |
| URL: | http://www.caida.org/publications/papers/2001/BackScatter/ |
| Entry Date: | 2003-01-30 |
| Abstract: | In this paper, we seek to answer a simple question: "How prevalent are denial-of-service attacks in the Internet today?". Our motivation is to understand quantitatively the nature of the current threat a s well as to enable longer-term analyses of trends and recurring patterns of attacks. We present a new t echnique, called "backscatter analysis", that provides an estimate of worldwide denial-of-service activit y. We use this approach on three week-long datasets to assess the number, duration and focus of attacks, and to characterize their behavior. During this period, we observe more than 12,000 attacks against mor e than 5,000 distinct targets, ranging from well known e-commerce companies such as Amazon and Hotmail to small foreign ISPs and dial-up connections. We believe that our work is the only publically available d ata quantifying denial-of-service activity in the Internet. |
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