An overview of DoS attacks
Denial of Service attacks do not reveal any sensitive information to attackers. Rather, they disable access to critical resources and cause inconvenience to administrators and users alike. These attacks can also be combined with other attack techniques in order to make them more devastating and efficient.
As with most Denial of Service conditions, there are no hard and fast solutions to prevent them. However, it is possible to detect the attacks when they are occurring and have an appropriate procedure in place in order to respond to them and mitigate them. Most wireless Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and other monitoring systems can detect and alert about DoS attacks, making them an essential tool for protecting your wireless network.
A Denial of Service attack
When compared to a wired Ethernet scenario, DoS attacks are easier to perform on wireless networks. On networks that fail to protect management frames—read nearly every wireless network—a single packet...
