exploring potential vulnerabilities in data center network
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.
data center network tcp denial of service