Slowreq: A weapon for cyberwarfare operations. Characteristics, limits, performance, remediations

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

Volumn 239, Issue , 2014, Pages 537-546

  Aiello, Maurizio ^a   Papaleo, Gianluca ^a   Cambiaso, Enrico ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cyberwarfare; Denial of service; Slow dos attack

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER CRIME; NETWORK SECURITY; SECURITY OF DATA; SOFT COMPUTING; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

CYBERSPACES; CYBERWARFARE; DENIAL OF SERVICE; DOS ATTACKS;

DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACK;

EID: 84927614782     PISSN: 21945357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01854-6_55     Document Type: Conference Paper

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