Exploring potential vulnerabilities in data center network

Authors:
Zhenqian Feng;Haitao Wu;Jinshu Su
Affiliations:
Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, P. R. China and National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, P.R. China;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, P. R. China;National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, P.R. China
Venue:
Proceedings of the ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we study the potential security issues in data center networks (DCN). We focus on TCP, and propose a synchronized denial of service (SDoS) attack model. In SDoS, malicious tenants may employ multiple virtual machines (VM) as attackers and launch a low-rate synchronized DoS attack to VMs of the targeted victims. We give an analysis and our preliminary experiments confirm the feasibility of such SDoS attack.