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Wireshark in IP version 6 workshop was a part of IPv6 summit sessions of Troopers 16. It was held by Jeffery Carrell on the second day of IPv6 summit on Tuesday, the 15th of March. The workshop was generally divided into two sections: a short introduction to IPv6 and analyzing some IPv6 packets on Wireshark.
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Continue readingSome weeks ago Hendrik explained in his blogpost Security Analysis of VoLTE, Part 1 some attack vectors for Voice over LTE (VoLTE). One attack vector introduced was Denial of Service (DoS), which I also discussed in my Masterthesis “Evaluation of IMS security and Developing penetration tests of IMS”.
In general, DoS attacks aim to prevent a system or a network from efficiently providing its service to legitimate users . The impact of such attacks can vary from a big degradation of quality to total blockage. DoS can occur on users level, where a user or a group of users cannot use the service. But the common conception of DoS is on the service level, where the whole service is broken, unstable or totally down. This blog post is about targeting DoS of the whole VoLTE service by attacking IMS.
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