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Common Denial of Service Attacks

October 15th, 2007 · Comments Off

Denial of service attacks come in two types: Denial of Service attacks (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS). A DoS attack is ‘an attack in which a third party purposely floods a network or website with traffic in order to prevent legitimate access (“Denial of Service”, 2007)’. A DDoS ‘occurs when multiple [...]

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