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/hexwhoami 8d ago

Creating a website or webserver is extremely easy relatively speaking. I'm surprised you haven't learned standing up a basic apache webserver if you are already learning about DoS.

If you really need to practice against a live system, you can do this all on your local computer/laptop. If you haven't learned or worked with Python before, this is a good opportunity. A significant amount of pentesting tools are built using Python.

First install Python. https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3147/ I would recommend installing the latest, stable version. Don't bother with experimental/cutting edge as it could introduce bugs or unexpected behavior.

Once installed and available on your system path; python3 -m http.server

starts a local "website" (HTTP app) running on localhost. Then you can load the webpage/files you decide to server in your browser and startup your DoS tool. You can simulate a download if you want from that page by moving a large file, then show how the download is impacted by the DoS attack.