From the course: Ethical Hacking: Denial of Service
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Flooding HTTP using GoldenEye
From the course: Ethical Hacking: Denial of Service
Flooding HTTP using GoldenEye
- [Prompter] Websites are often the target of denial of service attacks. There are many tools accessed for attacking them. One such tool is Golden Eye. It works by creating a lot of open sockets in the target system. Eventually consuming all available sockets. Golden Eye is an enhanced variant of the original Hulk tool. Golden Eye doesn't come with Carly, but we can download it easily enough. I'm in Carly and I'm at the Golden Eye Github page. And on the right, we can see the button to download it. Let's do that. I'll tell IceWeasel to save it. We now have the Golden Eye zip file downloaded. So I'll click on the blue down arrow to see all downloads. And I'll double click to open it. I'll select extract. Other location. Computer. User. Share. This is my Carly tools directory. I'll now press extract. And the extraction completes. And it extracts into the Golden Eye master directory. I'll select show files. And navigate down to Golden Eye master. Now just right click. And rename this to…
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