Thursday, April 9, 2015

TCP Flooding with HPING3

With the command written below you can flood the target host with TCP segments. Namely you can do a DoS (Denial of Service) attack with the command below.

selcuk@selcuk-Desktop: hping3 192.168.61.61 --flood

192.168.61.61 is the IP address of the target.
--flood sends as many as TCP packets to the target host.

My advice: DO NOT RUN THIS COMMAND IN ANY PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT!!!

You'll see why. But it may be a bit late. Maybe you can do it in your last day of your current company. Or it can be your last day in your current company after running the command above. =))

(Image taken from http://zaielacademic.net/security/syn_attacks.htm) 

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