Tutorial Tuesday: The basics on offense techniques for today. Brought to you by your teach3rs at AntiS3curityOPS.
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This week we are gonna do a rundown on the basics of attacking a target in the most simple manner.

Today we're gonna talk about HOIC (High Orbit Ion Cannon) which you can download the torrent here: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7021431/High_Orbit_Ion_Cannon

So what is HOIC?
HOIC overloads a server with fake visitors a simulated flood of malicious traffic that pushes a site to its breaking point. And once a website is down, this software keeps it down.

HOIC is also user friendly:
Anybody could use the HOIC. All you need to do is type in a target website and click fire.

The HOIC has some diabolical tricks up its sleeve. First, it cranks out more dummy traffic meant to overwhelm and crash a server with more fake "visitors" than it can handle, with a magnitude that outstrips anything the LOIC was capable of: It's able to fire off as much as 2 MB per second (depending on your connection and proxy/tor configuration) using HOIC. Part of the supercharging comes from the use of "boosters" (which you can find here:http://pastebin.com/a0vZwNum) custom scripts that spread malicious traffic across a range of target sub-pages, rather than just one. For example: instead of hitting EvilSite.com, a booster will knock EvilSite.com/about.html, EvilSite.com/news.html, etc, all forged to look like the traffic is coming from a variety of spots. Think shotgun versus pistol.

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