Ethical Hacking: Denial of Service

Ethical hacking involves testing to see if an organization's network is vulnerable to outside threats. Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks are one of the biggest threats out there. Being able to mitigate DoS attacks is one of the most desired skills for any IT security professional—and a key topic on the Certified Ethical Hacker exam. In this course, learn about the history of the major DoS attacks and the types of techniques hackers use to cripple wired and wireless networks, applications, and services on the infrastructure. Instructor Malcolm Shore covers the basic methods hackers use to flood networks and damage services, the rising threat of ransomware like Cryptolocker, mitigation techniques for detecting and defeating DoS attacks, and more.

Topics include:
What is denial of service?
TCP SYN, Smurf, and UDP flooding
Deauthenticating a wireless host
Flooding HTTP
Using BlackEnergy
Flooding a SIP server
Detecting P2P attacks with PeerShark
Defeating DoS attacks