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With the popularity of using virtual environments, it urges important measures that increase its security, as well as maintain a good user experience. A widespread attack is a denial of service which proposes to break the availability of service through a large number of illegitimate requests employing all computing resources of the target and degrading the user experience. In order to be effective in this particular type of attack, usually powerful equipment or a combination of them is required. This article proposes a new approach to this attack through a language-based Erlang application, which uses the processing power of a low-cost device. Its use would open the possibility of effective attacks coming from devices with less processing power, or from IoT devices, but capable of at least degrading the experience of a legitimate user, anonymously.
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This work has been conducted under the project “BIOMA – Bioeconomy integrated solutions for the mobilization of the Agri-food market” (POCI-01-0247-FEDER-046112), by “BIOMA” Consortium, and financed by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), through the Incentive System to Research and Technological Development, within the Portugal2020 Competitiveness and Internationalization Operational Program.
The authors are grateful to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) for financial support through national funds FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC) to CeDRI (UIDB/05757/2020 and UIDP/05757/2020) and SusTEC (LA/P/0007/2021).
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Mendes, A. (2022). Management of Virtual Environments with Emphasis on Security. In: Pereira, A.I., Košir, A., Fernandes, F.P., Pacheco, M.F., Teixeira, J.P., Lopes, R.P. (eds) Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications. OL2A 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1754. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23236-7_7
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