Security in Computing

6.5 Distributed Denial-of-Service

The denial-of-service attacks we just described are powerful by themselves, and Sidebar 6-19 shows us that many are launched. But an assailant can construct a two-stage attack that multiplies the effect many times. This multiplicative effect gives power to distributed denial of service.

Distributed denial-of-service attacks change the balance between adversary and victim by marshalling many forces on the attack side.

Sidebar 6-19 Denial of Service: What a Difference a Decade Makes

How much denial-of-service activity is there? As with most computer security incidents, reliable, representative statistics are hard to obtain because there is no central data collection, sampling approaches vary so there is little ...