Archive for DoS

How to win in the age of cyber war

While the bad news is that experts are declaring that we have entered the age of cyber war, the worse news as we enter 2012 is that security systems and professionals are just not able to keep up. Security attacks are increasing in their complexity and intensity every day. These range from inter-state attacks (like the one on Raytheon this year and the ones from China that are being investigated by the U.S. government) to cyber-crime (that includes countless malware and DDOS attacks against businesses and consumers).

                            

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Wikileaks, DDOS & Mu Dynamics

Not in my wildest dreams would I have thought of a connection between Wikileaks, the arrest of Julian Assange and Mu Dynamics. What’s the connection between us and them? Well it turns out there might be one after all.
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IPv6 Fuzzing and Testing

At Mu, we take testing IPv6 pretty seriously, especially since the IPv4 address space is vanishing faster than you say all octets of an IPv6 address. We released our first version of IPv6 test suite for fuzzing 3 years ago which includes coverage for fragmentation, various extension headers and and options. Most of the fun in fuzzing IPv6 happens with the extension headers which are much like IPv4 options, except it’s a chained linked-list like IKE payloads. In the one of the IPv6 test suites, we have more than 100,000 test cases that exercise various parts of the IPv6 capabilities!

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D/DoS Testing Network Applications

If you Google for “denial of service tools” or look in the “VoIP flooding tools“, you’ll find that all of these tools have a very similar pattern. Any engineer worth a dime hates writing the same code over and over again. So we are going to refactor these tools to abstract away the common boiler-plate code and end up with something that’s reusable, yet more powerful.

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