If we gave you the tools, you wouldn't know how to use them. Basic hacking is based on manipulating existing functionality on the target system to perform non-standard tasks. Tools are mostly to automate this manipulation and speed up the process.

Considering you want to do a DOS attack, what service does the server provide that you want to bring down? If it's something email, the answer could be as simple as writing a batch file to spam that particular port on the server with a neverending sequence of commands, preferably that which induces high CPU usage.

There are too many ways to hack, so go have fun with Uncle Google. You shouldn't even be asking here, since you're in a security related course =.=

*edit* Presumably, sneaking in while the admin is logged on from the client and issuing the shutdown command also qualifies as a DOS hack.

This post has been edited by snorlax: Sep 26 2008, 10:45 PM

Lol... What kind of tools are you talking about here? Especially for a DDoS attack, i wasn't aware there were prebuilt tools for this kind of thing to coordinate across computers

Not quite guys. WPA-TKIP is easily crackable, while WPA-AES requires a dictionary attack, which might be all but impossible with a strong random 64 char key.