Denial of Service Attack:
Denial-of-Service attacks are conducted by cyber-criminals with the intent of blocking legitimate users from accessing a network or server (Evens et al., p. 350-351). In many cases, these attacks occur on organizations, such as Facebook, and Twitter, and when successful, prevent a user from accessing the services of various websites, including email, and online accounts.
Denial-of-service attacks are generally conducted by flooding networks with a large volume of packets containing useless requests. This causes the network to slow down, or even grind to a halt as the network struggles to process the meaningless packets.
However, Denial-of-Service attacks do not harm a systems security parameters, nor do they access important information. They just hinder an authorized legal user from using or accessing a …show more content…
A Distributed-Denial-of-Service attack is simply a Denial-of-Service attack that is conducted by many computers at the same time. The computers conducting the Denial-of-Service attacks are generally PC’s that have been infected with a virus, and as such, the users of said PC’s are generally unaware that their computers are being utilized for malicious means. Due to this reason, it is very difficult to locate the true identity of the attacker in this type of attack (Evens et al., p. 350-351).
C) DoS Vs DDoS Attacks:
While DoS, and DDoS attacks are very similar in principle, a DDoS attack is far more powerful and damaging than a DoS attack. Because DDoS attacks are distributed from many different sources, they can far more easily circumvent the security measures put in place to prevent simple DoS attacks, allowing them to quickly saturate networks with packets of information that exhausts the victim’s server in a short period of time. (Douligeris & Mitrokotsa, 2004).
D) How Can I Create A Secure
Denial-of-Service attacks are conducted by cyber-criminals with the intent of blocking legitimate users from accessing a network or server (Evens et al., p. 350-351). In many cases, these attacks occur on organizations, such as Facebook, and Twitter, and when successful, prevent a user from accessing the services of various websites, including email, and online accounts.
Denial-of-service attacks are generally conducted by flooding networks with a large volume of packets containing useless requests. This causes the network to slow down, or even grind to a halt as the network struggles to process the meaningless packets.
However, Denial-of-Service attacks do not harm a systems security parameters, nor do they access important information. They just hinder an authorized legal user from using or accessing a …show more content…
A Distributed-Denial-of-Service attack is simply a Denial-of-Service attack that is conducted by many computers at the same time. The computers conducting the Denial-of-Service attacks are generally PC’s that have been infected with a virus, and as such, the users of said PC’s are generally unaware that their computers are being utilized for malicious means. Due to this reason, it is very difficult to locate the true identity of the attacker in this type of attack (Evens et al., p. 350-351).
C) DoS Vs DDoS Attacks:
While DoS, and DDoS attacks are very similar in principle, a DDoS attack is far more powerful and damaging than a DoS attack. Because DDoS attacks are distributed from many different sources, they can far more easily circumvent the security measures put in place to prevent simple DoS attacks, allowing them to quickly saturate networks with packets of information that exhausts the victim’s server in a short period of time. (Douligeris & Mitrokotsa, 2004).
D) How Can I Create A Secure