Investigating DoS attacks
A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is an attack meant to consume resources such as machines, websites, applications, or networks, making them inaccessible to their intended users. For example, imagine that you have a website that allows only five visitors to browse it at the same time. An attacker conducted a DoS attack against the website by browsing it using five fake visitors at the same time, consuming the number of allowed website visitors and preventing legitimate visitors from accessing the website. There are several network DoS attack types that could be conducted by threat actors:
- Distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS): These are like DoS attacks, except that requests are sent from many clients instead of just one. To carry out this attack, the attacker usually uses many bot machines (bots are machines that have been previously compromised and controlled by attackers). Each of these controlled bot machines conducts a DoS attack against...
