Booters &amp;#x2014; An analysis of DDoS-as-a-service attacks

Jair Santanna, José; van Rijswijk-Deij, Roland; Hofstede, Rick; Sperotto, Anna; Wierbosch, Mark; Zambenedetti Granville, Lisandro; Pras, Aiko

doi:10.1109/inm.2015.7140298

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Booters — An analysis of DDoS-as-a-service attacks

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Authors:

José Jair Santanna

Roland van Rijswijk-Deij

Rick Hofstede

Abstract

In 2012, the Dutch National Research and Education Network, SURFnet, observed a multitude of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against educational institutions. These attacks were effective enough to cause the online exams of hundreds of students to be cancelled. Surprisingly, these attac...

Subject

Denial-of-service attack

Computer science

Computer security

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