DoS is a type of attack that is used to flood a system or network with requests or packets, causing the system or network to become overloaded and crash.
This type of attack can be used to take a system or network offline, or to prevent legitimate users from accessing the system or network. DoS attacks can be launched from a single computer or from a large number of computers working together (a botnet).
There are many different types of DoS attacks, These attacks send a large number of SYN packets to a system or network, overloading it and causing it to crash.
DoS attcks including: - Flooding attacks
- SYN floods
- Ping of death
- Teardrop attacks
- Smurf attacks
- Land attacks
- Fraggle attacks
- Christmas attacks
- Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) attacks
- DHCP attack
- DNS attacks
- HTTP floods
- SSL attacks
- UDP floods
- ICMP floods
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