![]() On the other hand, although details of denial-of-service attacks are well-known and studied, it is quite difficult to protect any systems from it due to the very nature of the attacks. Damages from a DoS attack are usually devastating to businesses such as search engines, email providers, banks, e-commerce sites that rely heavily on availability. They are created by black hat hackers for different reasons varying from personal, political reasons to nastiness. Nowadays there are tools available on the Internet that allow attackers to conduct denial-of-service attacks to any vulnerable servers. What is it? Where does it come from? What can it do? How can you conduct it? Conduct with what? Software or hardware? ![]() But when it attacks you, your system will be defeated within minutes (sometimes seconds). In the world of computer network security, denial-of-service attack is a sneaky and furious monster.
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