not really. DDOS is distributed. Same with the implicatons of a botnet. You need multiple exploited computers from multiple different internet locations to execute this.
Doing it yourself, out of your house wont allow you to consume more than your contracted ISP bandwidth. So you would need to exploit other machines on different networks to form a botnet.
DDOS is harder to mitigate because the connections come from thousands, if not more, public IP's using the cumulative bandwith to choke the target (assuming the target has less bandwidth available than the aggregate of the infected source machines..
However you can CONTRIBUTE to a ddos by running LOIC. Which I wouldn't recommend to most as the legalities behind knowingly doing so are dubious at best I believe.
Yea, the funny thing is, there's an application for it LOIC, you can create your own botnet.
not really. DDOS is distributed. Same with the implicatons of a botnet. You need multiple exploited computers from multiple different internet locations to execute this.
Doing it yourself, out of your house wont allow you to consume more than your contracted ISP bandwidth. So you would need to exploit other machines on different networks to form a botnet.
DDOS is harder to mitigate because the connections come from thousands, if not more, public IP's using the cumulative bandwith to choke the target (assuming the target has less bandwidth available than the aggregate of the infected source machines..
However you can CONTRIBUTE to a ddos by running LOIC. Which I wouldn't recommend to most as the legalities behind knowingly doing so are dubious at best I believe.