University of South Florida Denial of Service Attacks Paper

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brief intro, types, and solutions. good report about DoS attack. 2 pages double spaced.

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DoS Attacks-Outline
I. Introduction
A. DoS in full mean Denial of Service, which is a type of cyber attack.
B. It is an attack known to cause long term damages within a short time, and no
warnings are available.
C. DoS is an online attack where the cyber hacker imposes excess traffic to a
network or website.
D. The system is overwhelmed, then the server crashes, thus failing to respond to all
its operation
E. The first DoS attack dates back in 1974, where David Dennis, who was 13 years
by then, powered off computers of a neighbouring university
II. Types of DoS
A. Flooding services
1) Takes place when there are too many messages sent to the servers to buffer,
thus slowing the system and which consequently stops
2) Buffer overflows attack.
3) ICMP flood
4) SYN flood
B. Crashing services
1) The crash attacks are not as popular as the flood attacks.
2) They occur when hackers send bugs that affect the flaws of the system under
consideration.
3) They make the system to clash and thus not used any more

III. Solutions
A. It is essential for a company to use anti- DoS software to identify such attack...


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