Types of dos Attack
An advanced persistent threat is a set of stealthy and continuous computer hacking processes, often orchestrated by a person or persons targeting a specific entity. An APT usually targets either private organizations, states or both for business or political motives.
Ping of Death (a.k.a. PoD) is a type of Denial of Service attack in which an attacker attempts to crash, destabilize, or freeze the targeted computer or service by sending malformed or oversized packets using a simple ping command.
DDoS Reflection. A basic Denial of Service attack is essentially a traffic flood, designed to exhaust bandwidth, memory or other resources at the target machine.
Slowloris What is Slowloris? Developed by Robert “RSnake” Hansen, Slowloris is DDoS attack software that enables a single computer to take down a web server.
A Smurf attack is a form of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that renders computer networks inoperable. The Smurf program accomplishes this by exploiting vulnerabilities of the Internet Protocol (IP) and Internet Control Message Protocols (ICMP).
TCP SYN Flood What is a SYN Flood Attack. TCP SYN flood (a.k.a. SYN flood) is a type of Distributed Denial of Service attack that exploits part of the normal TCP three-way handshake to consume resources on the targeted server and render it unresponsive.
A UDP flood attack is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack using the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), a sessionless/connectionless computer networking protocol.. Using UDP ...
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