CHAPTER 8
Denial of Service Attacks
In this chapter you will learn about
• Categories of DoS/DDoS attacks
• Bots, botnets, and pulsing zombies
• Tools like Hulk, HOIC, and LOIC
Denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can target various corporate resources and focus on not allowing legitimate requests to be served. That can cause significant service disruption and tremendous monetary losses, depending on the type of organization and associated resource under attack. Based on the locality, a DoS attack can be launched locally or remotely.
Local DoS Attacks
When an attacker launches a local DoS attack, the target might be a specific system process or the underlying host. For example, if there’s a MySQL service ...
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