If you are going to gain the CompTIA Security+ qualification, you need to know the different types of attacks that you may encounter; there are numerous attacks and you need to know about each of them, their characteristics, and how they can be prevented. Let's look at each in turn.
Common Attacks
Application/Service Attacks
- Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attack: A DoS attack is where the victim's machine or network is flooded with a high volume of requests from another host so that it is not available for any other hosts to use. A common method is to use SYN flood attacks, where the first two parts of the three-way handshake occur and the victim holds a session waiting for an ACK that never comes.
A SYN flood attack...
