From the course: Threat Modeling: Denial of Service and Elevation of Privilege
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Naïve to clever: Understanding DoS
From the course: Threat Modeling: Denial of Service and Elevation of Privilege
Naïve to clever: Understanding DoS
- [Instructor] At the naive end of attacks, is sheer quantity. If you can send a gigabit a second, why bother with subtlety? When disk space was expensive, music files could be a denial of service. Today, we don't even think about storing videos. At the clever end of denial of service attacks are ways to make a small request, that you know generates lots of work. For example, call a fancy French restaurant and tell them you're lactose intolerant, when making a reservation. Many of their dishes use sauces that include butter or cream and rather than remake those sauces many restaurants will limit the diner's choices. A really fancy place might make something special and new for you, choosing to absorb that work. Of course, that's a real personable requests from everyone's perspective. No one wants the diner to suffer a bad reaction to the food. What transforms it into an attack is the motive, calling for several…
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