What prevents a person from using StressMy.com in a malicious manner? Can StressMy.com be used for a denial of service attack?
Several features have been built into StressMy.com to minimize the likelihood of it being used in a malicious manner. The nature of stress and performance testing is to generate enough traffic through a site to determine its performance as the load increases, and the site’s application may recognize it as a denial of service (DOS) attack. If you are the site’s developer, this may be a good way to test your site’s vulnerability to DOS attacks and check its preventative mechanisms. It may also be a good test of the efficacy of your load balancing scheme, the capacity of your network, or the capacity of the channels between your web servers and database server or legacy host applications. Appropriate testing with StressMy.com and malicious use can look very similar. The difference is in whether the test load was invited or not. To minimize the chances of malicious use, StressMy.com makes sure that it has valid identity information its members. Complimentary accounts are carefully limited
