Eshchanov Jo’rabek

Definition:

Definition:

Attack through which a person can render a system unusable or significantly slow down the system for legitimate users by overloading the system so that no one else can use it.

Types:

• Crashing the system or network
• Send the victim data or packets which will cause system to crash or reboot.
• Exhausting the resources by flooding the system or network with information
• Since all resources are exhausted others are denied access to the resources
• Distributed DOS attacks are coordinated denial of service attacks involving several people and/or machines to launch attacks

Denial of Service (DOS) Attack