DocumentCode :
2806192
Title :
Empirical analysis of Denial of Service attack against SMTP servers
Author :
Bencsáth, Boldizsár ; Rónai, Miklós Aurél
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Telecommun., Budapest Univ. of Technol. & Econ., Budapest
fYear :
2007
fDate :
25-25 May 2007
Firstpage :
72
Lastpage :
79
Abstract :
In this paper we show that the performance of the generic SMTP servers are more limited than we previously thought. We implemented a environment to test SMTP server performance focusing on denial of service (DoS) attacks. Our measurements show that a standard SMTP server can be easily overloaded by sending simple email messages and the overload can occur without consuming all network bandwidth. Our measurements also show that the usage of content filtering applications can harm the performance so much that the server become even more vulnerable to DoS attacks. In the paper we describe the problems of performance measurements in SMTP environment and we also give a detailed background about the performed measurements.
Keywords :
electronic mail; security of data; transport protocols; SMTP servers; content filtering applications; denial of service attack; email messages; simple mail transfer protocol; Bandwidth; Benchmark testing; Computer crime; Cryptography; Laboratories; Network servers; Performance analysis; Postal services; Throughput; Web server; DoS attack; E-mail; SMTP; bechmark; throughput;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Collaborative Technologies and Systems, 2007. CTS 2007. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-0-9785699-1-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-9785699-1-4
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/CTS.2007.4621740
Filename :
4621740
Link To Document :
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