Denial Of Service Attacks

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A denial of service attack (DoS attack) is generally the attempt to degrade the resources of another computer, or crash it, so the that the intended users of that computer can not longer use it. The methods used to do such an attack usually involve an attempt to exploit a weakness in one of the protocols that are used on the internet to cause harm to the target machine or make it lose and use resources at an unusual level. Since denial of service attacks are so common today protection has become a very important concern for machines on the internet.

Attack Methods

ICMP flood

Application level floods

Distributed attack

Unintentional attack

Prevention and Protection

Firewalls

Switches and Routers

Application Level

See also

References

1. Types of DDoS Attacks. Retrieved April 11, 2009, http://anml.iu.edu/ddos/types.html
2. CERT/CC Denial of Service. Retrieved April 11, 2009, http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/denial_of_service.html
3. Mullen, Ruth. Flood Protection and Ignoring People. Retrieved April 11, 2009, http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/mirc/flood.html
4. "Simple Nomad", Strategies for Defeating Distributed Attacks. Retrieved April 11, 2009, http://www.windowsecurity.com/whitepapers/Strategies_for_Defeating_Distributed_Attacks.html
5. Parks, J. (2008, August 25). DDoS Attack Prevention - The Best Medicine. Retrieved April 12, 2009, from http://ezinearticles.com/?DDoS-Attack-Prevention---The-Best-Medicine&id=1439320

External links

--Frostd 17:32, 3 April 2009 (EDT)