Denial of Service Attacks

Overview of Denial of Service Attacks in relation to cyber crime: [1]Distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks are even more threatening to information systems. In these types of attacks infected systems called botnets that have previously attacked and effectively been taken over are capable of being remotely controlled. This situation allows DOS attacks such as those previously described to be launched through many networks and geographic areas simultaneously. DDOS attacks may employ thousands of botnets with a combined power to bring down all but the largest computer networks. Imagine if your country were attacked from every country in the world and from all of the nation's borders at the same time. This is what DDOS attacks are like. Such massive amounts of traffic derived from many sources of attack make DDOS among the most threatening forms of cybercrime.

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1. By Paul Lepkowski

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Denial of Service Attacks

Denial of Service Attacks