DDoS attack algorithm using ICMP flood

The increasing rate of Cyber Attacks based on the DDoS principle has created various new areas of concern for information security. It has also raised a pertinent question — Are we protected against such simplified attacks? With significant rise in the number of attacks and resulting reports of high vulnerability to Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, perhaps we need to reconsider and revisit the pros and cons of the various Protocol such as ICMP, TCP/IP etc. This research is aimed at giving readers a brief outline of DDoS Attacks and its constituents, primarily the ICMP Protocol. We also propose an algorithm to carry out a DDoS Attack based on ICMP Flooding technique.