Welcome to Pluralsight,
and this Red Team Tools course featuring Low Orbit Ion Cannon,
or LOIC,
the open source impact tool developed by Praetox Technologies and
maintained by multiple contributors on GitHub.
LOIC is a tool that penetration testers and ethical hackers can use to
conduct network stress tests on remote networks and services.
LOIC is used to quickly and easily send large amounts of network
traffic to target hosts for flooding attacks.
You can also connect LOIC to an IRC server and centrally control
multiple remote hosts to carry out distributed attacks.
Low Orbit Ion Cannon's name comes from a fictional
weapon. As the tagline in the application says, When
harpoons, airstrikes, and nukes fail, we have LOIC to attack our targets.
Come join me as we use Low Orbit Ion Cannon for impact and
attack our targets using floods of meaningless traffic to
disrupt legitimate use of the application.