Denial-of-Service Attacks
A recent craze in Internet intrusion are denial-of-service (DOS) attacks. A denial-of-service attack is almost impossible to stop once it starts, because it does not require the attacker to have any particular privileges on the system. The point of a denial-of-service attack is to tie up the system with so many requests that system resources are all consumed and performance degrades. High-profile denial-of-service attacks have been launched against Web sites of the U.S. government and those associated with major Internet search engines.
The most dangerous denial-of-service attack is the so-called distributed denial-of-service attack. The hacker in a distributed denial-of-service attack uses several remote computers to ...
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