- Sock stress
Sock Stress is an internal program developed by Jack C. Louis at [http://www.outpost24.com/ Outpost24] . Louis discovered anomalies using [http://www.unicornscan.org/
Unicornscan ] to test and probe networks for corporate security which lead to the development of Sock Stress [ [http://debeveiligingsupdate.nl/audio/bevupd_0003.mp3 Interview with Robert E. Lee and Jack C. Louis (First 8 minutes after English begins)] ]This program allegedly uses techniques to create local resource consumption which crash a service or the entire machine, essentially a denial of service attack. So far it is reported that this affects all systems running any service utilizing TCP, including
Windows , Mac,Linux , andBSD . (That would also include anyrouter or other internet appliance that accepts TCP connections. i.e.Border Gateway Protocol ) [ [http://www.grc.com/sn/notes-164.htm Security Now! podcast explaining what possibly occurs in Sock Stress] ]The concept was first [http://blog.robertlee.name/2008/09/sec-t-sockstress-recap.html demonstrated] in September 2008 [ [http://blog.nordenfelt.com/2008/09/12/sec-t-day-1/ Carl Nordenfelt's blog post] [http://www.linuxchick.se/2008/09/14/sec-t-security-conference-for-a-technical-audience/ Amelia Nilsson's blog post] [http://firelynx.se/blog.php?offset=0 Mikael (FireLynx) blog post] ] . While the attacks are currently theoretical, the researchers said they will provide demonstrations at the [http://www.t2.fi/ T2 conference] in Helsinki, Finland on October 16 - 17 2008. [ [http://www.outpost24.com/news/news-2008-10-02.html Outpost24 press release] ]
References
* [http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/10/01/0127245.shtml Slashdot news article]
External links
* [http://www.outpost24.com/ Outpost24]
* [http://blog.robertlee.name/ Robert E. Lee's Blog]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7386829747310674889&hl=en Edit of Security Now PodCast]
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