Teaching on Testbeds

Layer 7 DoS attack with slowloris

Fraida Fund

Runs on: CloudLab, Networking, Security

This experiment explores slowloris, a denial of service attack that requires very little bandwidth and causes vulnerable web servers to stop accepting connections to other users.

This experiment highlights the difficulty associated with mitigating a denial of service attack, without affecting legitimate users.

It should take about 60 minutes to run this experiment.

You can run this experiment on CloudLab!

Layer 7 DoS attack with slowloris

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2231984.

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.