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Welcome to Pluralsight,

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and this Red Team Tools course featuring Low Orbit Ion Cannon,

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or LOIC,

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the open source impact tool developed by Praetox Technologies and

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maintained by multiple contributors on GitHub.

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LOIC is a tool that penetration testers and ethical hackers can use to

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conduct network stress tests on remote networks and services.

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LOIC is used to quickly and easily send large amounts of network

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traffic to target hosts for flooding attacks.

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You can also connect LOIC to an IRC server and centrally control

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multiple remote hosts to carry out distributed attacks.

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Low Orbit Ion Cannon's name comes from a fictional

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weapon. As the tagline in the application says, When

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harpoons, airstrikes, and nukes fail, we have LOIC to attack our targets.

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Come join me as we use Low Orbit Ion Cannon for impact and

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attack our targets using floods of meaningless traffic to

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disrupt legitimate use of the application.