Low Orbit Ion Cannon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Low Orbit Ion Cannon LOIC-0.png Original author(s) Praetox Technologies Stable release 1.0.8 / 13 Dec 2014; 5 years ago[1] Written in C# Operating system Windows, Linux, OS X, Android, iOS Platform .NET, Mono Size 131 KB Available in English Type Network testing License Public domain Website Official website Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) is an open-source network stress testing and denial-of-service attack application, written in C#. LOIC was initially developed by Praetox Technologies, but was later released into the public domain,[2] and now is hosted on several open source platforms.[3][4] Contents 1 Use 2 Countermeasures 3 Notable uses 3.1 Project Chanology and Operation Payback 3.2 Operation Megaupload 4 Origin of name 5 Legality 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Use LOIC performs a DoS attack (or when used by multiple individuals, a DDoS attack) on a target site by flooding the ser...
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