Attack & Defense Lab
An end-to-end cybersecurity project demonstrating Red Team attack vectors and Blue Team defense strategies. This lab focuses on mitigating DoS, MITM, and Brute Force attacks through Linux Kernel hardening and automated defense systems.
Project Technical Overview
- Denial of Service (DoS): Mitigated SYN Flood and Slowloris attacks using
iptables,TCP SYN Cookies, andmod_reqtimeout. - Man-in-the-Middle (MITM): Simulated ARP Spoofing with
Bettercapand implemented Static ARP binding defenses. - Brute Force Defense: Deployed
Fail2Banintrusion prevention to protect WordPress administrative interfaces against automatedHydraattacks. - System Hardening: Optimized
sysctl.confparameters to enhance network stack resilience against resource exhaustion.