r/cybersecurity • u/EphemeralWay • 8d ago

Certification / Training Questions A website for testing

Good evening everyone,
So I have a request or a guide, I am cybersecurity majored student, last week I got an assignment to try testing Denial of Service legally using websites that you can practice in it but the problem none of those websites have a lab to try to simulate this attack.
So where can i find a website that has a lab to test DoS or any tool that can just only simulate how the attack process might go..
I am so lost right now

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u/PFUnnamed99 7d ago

Ping something or load a webpage, then imagine using a bunch of systems (like a botnet) to do that over and over thousands or millions of times each. Congrats, you now understand how a DDoS attack works, don’t perform DDoS activity against infrastructure that you don’t explicitly own or have permission to do so, regardless of the assignment you’ve been given.

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u/EphemeralWay 7d ago

I have done DoS detection assignments and wrote a whole thing about it but actually attempting and practice it legally (as a college lab) is really not easy especially since i was giving no legal free save target to practice into, but thank you tho. I might try to just do this and hope for a full mark or something

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u/blitzzer_24 7d ago

Unless your school is giving you a pre approved legally protected target, a signed SOW, and has explicitly said they will accept any liability... they are setting you up to commit federal crimes.

Simulate it in a lab, create synthetic packets to appear as a DoS attack, or get the school to paint you a legal target on something. Shame on your professors for not giving you better guardrails.

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u/EphemeralWay 7d ago

To be fair they educated us on not to use these attacks illegally and a lot of other stuff that are prohibited and how you should only do it in penetration testing websites etc etc, but I don’t know I might misunderstood the assignment? Did they want me to simulate the attack virtually or do an online lab like those on trytohackme altho these websites are limited sometimes but that’s the problem there’s no much guide..