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Denial of Service (DoS)


What is DoS?


Denial of Service is an attack on the users, network or host that deny legitimate access to a particular resource.


An example of this is a person sends continues requests or data to your computer system to try to deplete all the resource. During this the computer system may either crash, which is very unlikely now-a-days , or use so must resource that the computer is unable to do anything else that involves sending data such as browsing the web.

What is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)?


DDos is a DoS, but its with the use of multiple systems in which is used to flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system.

What are the different types of denial of service?


Ping of Death, attackers sends multiple ping requestion to a host to do a DoS

Smurf Attack, attackers sends a ping message to the broadcast address of a network with a spoofed ip in order to flood that host.

SYN Flood,attacker utilize the TCP 3 way hand shake to accomplish this type of DoS by creating multiple embryonic session or half open TCP session on a host to depletion the host resource because in TCP some amount of resource are set a side for each connection.

Teardrop Forging fragmented packets designed to overlap each other when the receiving hosts defragment them


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