SYN Flooding using SCAPY and Prevention using iptables
DoS (Denial of Service) attacks against Web services make them unavailable for legitimate users, affecting the website owner’s potential business. These involve intentional consumption of network, CPU and memory resources. In this article,…
Creating Your Own Server: The Socket API, Part 1
In this series of articles aimed at newbies to network programming (knowledge of C is a prerequisite), we’ll learn how to create network clients and servers using the UNIX Socket API. We’ll start…
Digital Forensic Analysis Using BackTrack, Part 1
Digital forensics, the art of recovering and analysing the contents found on digital devices such as desktops, notebooks/netbooks, tablets, smartphones, etc., was little-known a few years ago. However, with the growing incidence of…
Capturing Packets in Your C Program, with libpcap
This article provides an introduction to libpcap, and shows, with examples of source code, how you can use it to create your own packet-sniffing programs. All data on the network travels in the…






