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 ====== Proposed Projects for Fall 2014 ======
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+====== DDoS Attack using Google-bots ======
+**Supervisor**: Ntalija Vlajic
+**Recommended Background**: CSE 3213 or CSE 3214, CSE 3482
+Not long ago, botnets - networks of compromised computers - were seen as
+the most effective (if not the only) means of conducting Distributed Denial
+of Service (DDoS) attacks. However, with the growing popularity and prevalence
+of application-layer over other types of DDoS attacks, the DDoS execution
+landscape is becoming increasingly more diverse. An especially interesting
+new trend is the execution of application-layer DDoS attacks by means of
+skillfully manipulated Web-crawlers, such as Google-bots.
+The goal of this project is to design, implement and test a real-world
+framework consisting of the following: a) the attacker's web-accessible
+domain specially designed to attract Google-bots and then manipulate them
+into generating attack traffic towards the target/victim site; b) the
+victim's Web site set up in Amazon S3 cloud. In addition to the hands-on
+component, the project will also look into the statistical/numerical
+estimation of the framework's anticipated 'attack potential' relative
+to an actual (real-world) target/victim site.
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