DDoS is becoming a common term nowadays thanks to notorious attacks done by Anonymous - its a term even familiar to non-tech-savvy people. Such arsenal created just for this purpose, the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) is a tool for DDoS - Distributed Denial of Service. To briefly explain what it does basically, here is a statement excerpted from experienced users (and defenders from said weapons):
"LOIC basically turns your computer's network connection into a firehose of garbage requests, directed towards a target web server. On its own, one computer rarely generates enough TCP, UDP, or HTTP requests at once to overwhelm a web server-garbage requests can easily ignored while legit requests for web pages are responded to as normal.
But when thousands of users run LOIC at once, the wave of requests become overwhelming, often shutting a web server (or one of its connected machines, like a database server) down completely, or preventing legitimate requests from being answered."
Summarily, it shutdowns a website for quite some time (which can mean loss of billions for big operating businesses or agencies). Well, why 'ancient'? As of currently there is an upgraded version of the tool, called High Orbit Ion Cannon. Of course, HOIC was made in C++, akin to his younger brother. Indubitably, HOIC is bigger and stronger. Still, there are sites around the web that provide LOICs, which they claim that they are - "effectively to be used as a stress-testing application and/or academic purposes."
One such is the sole web-based LOIC at a blogger loworbitwebcannon currently maintained by an enigmatic 'Zant Corporation', its still up and running active. A downloadable executable is also available for free at SourceForge. Due to recent massive arrests against DDoS perpetrators back in 2010, these softwares have lost some of its notoriety and are to be used with utmost caution and at own risk. Of course, we at Tweakmancer believe you know the wiser.
One such is the sole web-based LOIC at a blogger loworbitwebcannon currently maintained by an enigmatic 'Zant Corporation', its still up and running active. A downloadable executable is also available for free at SourceForge. Due to recent massive arrests against DDoS perpetrators back in 2010, these softwares have lost some of its notoriety and are to be used with utmost caution and at own risk. Of course, we at Tweakmancer believe you know the wiser.
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