PiSecurityCheck: Server Security Check in a Hand

Nowadays, due to the Ukrainian-Russian war, Denial of Service attacks against major Institutions across Europe are increasing. The majority of them are application layer (L7) attacks in which slow HTTP attacks play a major role. In this paper, it is presented PiSecurityCheck, an Android application designed to check in an intuitive and fast way with a minimum amount of bandwidth, if a web server may be prone to slow HTTP attacks. It will be shown how a mobile application can emulate a DoS attack, based on different parameters set by the user. Apache and IIS will be tested in their default configuration and the results compared with slowhttptest output, to corroborate the validity of PiSecurityCheck.