DOS Attacks or Denial Of Services Attack have become very common amongst Hackers who use them as a path to fame and respect in the underground groups of the Internet. Denial of Service Attacks basically means denying valid Internet and Network users from using the services of the target network or server. It basically means, launching an attack, which will temporarily make the services, offered by the Network unusable by legitimate users. In others words one can describe a DOS attack, saying that a DOS attack is one in which you clog up so much memory on the target system that it cannot serve legitimate users. Or you send the target system data packets, which cannot be handled by it and thus causes it to either crash, reboot or more commonly deny services to legitimate users.
DOS Attacks are of the following different types-:
1. Those that exploit vulnerabilities in the TCP/IP protocols suite.
2. Those that exploit vulnerabilities in the Ipv4 implementation.
3 There are also some brute force attacks, which try to use up all resources of the target system and make
the services unusable.
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