From the course: Ethical Hacking: Denial of Service

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UDP flooding with LOIC

UDP flooding with LOIC

From the course: Ethical Hacking: Denial of Service

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UDP flooding with LOIC

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- [Instructor] Let's take a look at the low orbit ion canon, or LOIC. LOIC is used to generate a massive amount of network traffic in order to consume bandwidth, and exhaust network or application resources. Such a high rate of traffic results in performance degradation, and potentially a loss of service. A user armed with LOIC can perform denial of service against a target site, by flooding its server with illegitimate TCP, UDP, or HTTP packets. On its own, one computer running LOIC can't generate enough TCP, UDP at once to overwhelm the average server. It takes thousands of computers, all targeting a single server, to have any real impact. A distributor denial of service by coordinating many individual attacks. Consequently, LOIC has become notorious due to some highly publicized attacks against Sony, PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa. It was at one stage the weapon of choice for the hacker group, Anonymous. LOIC is now a legitimate testing tool, widely used by testers and network…

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