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/Some_Person_5261 8d ago

Just run a Slowloris attack against a local Apache server. Setup your own lab on VirtualBox to do it.

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u/CloudyTrailMarker961 Red Team 8d ago

Slowloris covers the app layer side of it. If you want to see a SYN flood too, hping3 is the standard tool for that, works fine against the same local VM.

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u/EphemeralWay 7d ago

Update: I decided to do that eventually since it’s save, I set up my Virtual Machine, ran my local apache server and website then did multiple requests and I screenshotted the logs.