How can I discover new DoS attacks?
New DoS attacks are fairly easy to discover. Flooding any service or system with malformed or excessive packets and observing the behavior will tell you if you’ve discovered something interesting. It is advised that you test this kind of thing against home systems or cooperating friends until you’ve perfected your techniques. Often, it is easy to trace the source of such attacks, especially if you launch then from your home system without IP forgery, and since DoS is illegal against systems you don’t have permission to attack, and may violate your ISP’s acceptable use policy, you might want to be careful.
