• DocumentCode
    2790230
  • Title

    Denial of service and distributed denial of service-today and tomorrow

  • Author

    Meyer, L. ; Penzhorn, W.T.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr., Electron. & Comput. Eng., Pretoria Univ., South Africa
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    15-17 Sept. 2004
  • Firstpage
    959
  • Abstract
    The most common method of attacks experienced today is by means of denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. This work gives a detailed overview of these attacks. It presents the current trends that a DDoS attack follows and the rate of infection today, compared to previous infections. Furthermore this paper introduces the possibility of a DDoS attack with the mobile phone as the master. It predicts the rate of infection and the consequences of such an attack.
  • Keywords
    Internet; mobile handsets; telecommunication security; telecommunication services; Web server; distributed denial of service; infection rate; mobile phone; Application software; Application specific processors; Computer bugs; Computer crime; Computer graphics; Java; Mobile handsets; Operating systems; Web pages; Web server;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    AFRICON, 2004. 7th AFRICON Conference in Africa
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8605-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/AFRICON.2004.1406828
  • Filename
    1406828