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Low-Rate TCP-Targeted DoS Attack Disrupts Internet Routing

Category: Security, Networking and Communications

Tags: routers, ip, infrastructure, network

Overview Compared to attacks against end hosts, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against the Internet infrastructure such as those targeted at routers can be more devastating due to their global impact on many networks. The paper discovers that the recently identified low-rate TCP-targeted DoS attacks can have severe impact on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). As the interdomain routing protocol on today's Internet, BGP is the critical infrastructure for exchanging reachability information across the global Internet. Empirically it was demonstrated that BGP routing sessions on the current commercial routers are susceptible to such low-rate attacks launched remotely, leading to session resets and delayed routing convergence, seriously impacting routing stability and network reachability.

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Publisher: University of Michigan
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Dec 6, 2007
Format: White Papers
Topics: Denial of Service, Network Security, TCP - IP

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