INTRODUCTION How they are performed and why they attract so much attention ! We won't be getting into much detail as we are just trying to give everyone a better understanding of the problem. Denial of Service attacks Denial of Service (DoS) attacks can be a serious federal crime with penalties that include years of imprisonment and many countries have laws that attempt to protect against this. At the very least, offenders routinely lose their Internet Service Provider (ISP) accounts, get suspended if school resources are involved, etc. There are two types of DoS attacks: 1) Operating System attacks:Which target bugs in specific operating systems and can be fixed with patches. 2) Networking attacks: Which exploit inherent limitations of networking and may require firewall protection. Operating System Attacks These attacks exploit bugs in a specific operating system (OS), which is the basic software that your computer runs, such as Windows or Mac OS. In gen...
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