We present techniques for attributing amplification DDoS attacks to the booter services that launched the attack. Our k-Nearest Neighbor (k -NN) classification algorithm is based on features that are characteristic for a DDoS service, such as the set of reflectors used by that service. This allows us to attribute DDoS attacks based on observations from honeypot amplifiers, augmented with traini...

Distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) is an attempt by malicious hosts to overload website, network, e-mail servers, applications, network resources, bandwidth, etc. Globally DDoS attacks affected four out of ten organizations (around 41 %) over the past few years. Challenges involved in taking counter measures against DDoS attacks are network infrastructure, identifying legitimate traffi...

Reliable distinguishing DDOS flood traffic from aggregated traffic is desperately desired by reliable prevention of DDOS attacks. By reliable distinguishing, we mean that flood traffic can be distinguished from aggregated one for a predetermined probability. The basis to reliably distinguish flood traffic from aggregated one is reliable detection of signs of DDOS flood attacks. As is known, rel...

Web-sites acts as the best platforms for attacks like DDOS attack worm propagation and many other attacks which are related to application layer. To detect application layer DDOS attack is a cumbersome task. It is basically originated from the lower layer i.e. network layer and transport layer. Whereas this new application layer based DDOS attacks utilizes genuine HTTP request to make victim re...

Volumetric Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been a recurrent issue on the Internet. These attacks generate a flooding of fake network traffic to interfere with targeted servers or network links. Despite many efforts to detect and mitigate them, attackers have played a game always circumventing countermeasures. Today, there is an increase in the number of infected devices, even ...

The islands of the Caribbean are a particularly interesting geographical region to examine the dynamic relationship between past human communities and sudden environmental change. This chapter examines how past peoples, living on the islands in the Caribbean Sea, were vulnerable to a number of environmental threats. The focus of this chapter is the impact of floods, droughts, and wind shear cre...

Software Defined Network (SDN) is a new architecture for network management and its main concept is centralizing network management in the network control level that has an overview of the network and determines the forwarding rules for switches and routers (the data level). Although this centralized control is the main advantage of SDN, it is also a single point of failure. If this main contro...

One of the great threat to service availability in cloud computing is Distributed Denial of Service. Here a novel approach has been proposed to minimize DDoS attacks. This has been planned to achieve by an intelligent fastflux swarm network. An intelligent swarm network is required to ensure autonomous coordination and allocation of swarm nodes to perform its relaying operations. Intelligent Wa...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are network-wide attacks that cannot be detected or stopped easily. They affect “natural” spatiotemporal packet traffic patterns, i.e. “natural distributions” of packets passing through the routers. Thus, they affect “natural” information entropy profiles, a sort of “fingerprints”, of normal packet traffic. We study if by monitoring information entro...

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) defense systems are not capable of withstanding by themselves against large-scale attacks. Thus, coordinated protection efforts have become an attractive alternative to extend defense capabilities of a single system. However, existing DDoS signaling protocols are a bottleneck to make a coordinated and distributed defense fully operational. Blockchain technol...