Welcome anons to #Setup

Here we will cover the basics you need to know in order to stay safe and get your software configured.

VPN:

A vpn hides your real ip and replaces it with the tunnel you are connecting through, this means that you are extremely hard to trace back - not impossible however.
DO NOT use free VPN's, proxies or TOR. Free VPN's keep logs of users activity and would happily hand it over to any law enforcement agency. Some suggestions VPN providers that are trusted and don't keep logs.

When selecting your VPN make sure you choose Openvpn and not pptp, unless you are using it strictly on your mobile device. Most mobile phones especially Android DO NOT support openvpn unless you are running a custom ROM.

Commonly Used (swedish servers)

1. http://anonine.se/

2. http://www.vpntunnel.se/

Also using a VPS and your own vpn is another good option.

Also perform a dns leak test after your vpn is installed and configured.

http://www.dnsleaktest.com/ (Follow the site instructions)

More info regarding your VPN and making it more secure can be found here:

http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-make-vpns-even-more-secure-120419/

Network testing tools, alternatives to LOIC: (Do NOT use LOIC)

Hping:

hping is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer.
The interface is inspired to the ping(8) unix command, but hping isn't only able to send ICMP echo requests. It supports TCP, UDP, ICMP and RAW-IP protocols, has a traceroute mode, the ability to send files between a covered channel, and many other features.
Easy to use system, when it has downloaded for your appropriate OS please install and choose to use

Homepage: http://www.hping.org/download.php - Windows/Linux

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fagjmQi-sBY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRxnzAWX5ag

HPING COMMAND: hping3 -i u1 -S -p 80 (site)

Slowloris :

The low bandwidth, yet greedy and poisonous HTTP client!
This is a Perl program requiring the Perl interpreter with the modules IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::SSL, and GetOpt::Long. Slowloris works MUCH better and faster if you have threading, so I highly encourage you to also install threads and threads::shared if you don't have those modules already.
You can install modules using CPAN:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install IO::Socket::INET'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install IO::Socket::SSL'

Homepage: http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/ - Linux

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPo8wVxsXAA

Hoic:

- High-speed multi-threaded HTTP Flood
- Simultaenously flood up to 256 websites at once
- Built in scripting system to allow the deployment of 'boosters', scripts designed to thwart DDoS counter measures and increase DoS output.
- Easy to use interface
- Can be ported over to Linux/Mac with a few bug fixes (I do not have either systems so I do
- Ability to select the number of threads in an ongoing attack
- Ability to throttle attacks individually with three settings: LOW, MEDIUM, and HIGH
and its written in a language where you can do a bunch of really nifty things
just read the RealBasic manual, ;] also no Dependencies (single executable)

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?jkc7924jsa0161z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmhDQtsbPAk

Pyloris:

PyLoris is a scriptable tool for testing a server's vulnerability to connection exhaustion denial of service (DoS) attacks. PyLoris can utilize SOCKS proxies and SSL connections, and can target protocols such as HTTP, FTP, SMTP, IMAP, and Telnet.

Homepage: http://motomastyle.com/pyloris/

Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyloris/

Do NOT use Tor for Dos all it does is hit Tor's Network.

Test DOS tools on 127.0.0.1

By Chris defaulter ;)