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A. SheikhCertified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Preparation Guidehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7258-9_7

7. Denial of Service

Ahmed Sheikh1  
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Miami, FL, USA
 

Examples of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack include flooding an identified system with more traffic than it can handle, flooding a service with more events than it can handle, or crashing a TCP/IP stack by sending corrupt packets. In this chapter, you will learn how to recognize and examine symptoms of a DoS attack and become informed about how to recognize detection techniques and countermeasure strategies.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to
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    Identify characteristics of a DoS attack.

     
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    Analyze ...

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