Hands-on denial of service lab exercises using SlowLoris and RUDY
Evan Damon, Julian Dale, Evaristo Laron, Jens Mache, Nathan Land, RICHARD S. WEISS · 2012
This paper presents an interactive exercise based on offensive denial of service techniques used by hackers. The goals of the exercise are to teach how a large class of denial of service (DoS) attacks work. Students will see that it is not necessary to use distributed DoS. Moreover, using virtualization, we created an exercise that was easy for faculty to use. We tested it on a class of computer science undergraduates, and while it was well-received by the students and easy for the faculty member, we learned some important lessons about designing hands-on exercises. In addition to teaching students about DoS attacks and how to defend against them, this exercise also requires students to look carefully at the HTTP protocol.