DOS Attacks and Free DOS Attacking Tools
The denial of service
(DOS) attack is one of the most powerful attacks used by hackers to
harm a company or organization. Don’t confuse a DOS attack with DOS, the
disc operating system developed by Microsoft. This attack is one of
most dangerous cyber attacks. It causes service outages and the loss of
millions, depending on the duration of attack. In past few years, the
use of the attack has increased due to the availability of free tools.
This tool can be blocked easily by having a good firewall. But a
widespread and clever DOS attack can bypass most of the restrictions. In
this post, we will see more about the DOS attack, its variants, and the
tools that are used to perform the attack. We will also see how to
prevent this attack and how not to be the part of this attack.
What Is a Denial of Service Attack?
A DOS attack is an attempt to make a system or server
unavailable for legitimate users and, finally, to take the service down.
This is achieved by flooding the server’s request queue with fake
requests. After this, server will not be able to handle the requests of
legitimate users.
In general, there are two forms of the DOS attack. The first
form is on that can crash a server. The second form of DOS attack only
floods a service.
DDOS or Distributed Denial of Service Attack
This is the complicated but powerful version of DOS attack in which many attacking systems are involved. In DDOS attacks,
many computers start performing DOS attacks on the same target server.
As the DOS attack is distributed over large group of computers, it is
known as a distributed denial of service attack.
