Abstract

Background
Any action perpetrated with a goal to deny service to legitimate clients is called a “denial-ofservice (DoS) attack.” There are many ways to deny service, including direct flooding, indirect flooding via reflector attacks (where attack nodes send service requests to many public servers, spoofing the IP addresses of the victim, and thus the replies overwhelm the victim), misusing the routing protocols, hijacking DNS service, exploiting vulnerable applications and protocols, etc. A most common form of DoS is direct flooding attacks, which are often distributed, ie, they involve multiple attack machines (distributed denial-of-service

Date

February 7, 2021

Authors

Jelena Mirkovic

Book

Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy

Pages

1-5

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg