Abstract

Suddenly your Web server becomes unavailable. When you investigate, you realize that a flood of packets is surging into your network. You have just become one of the hundreds of thousands of victims of a denial-of-service attack, a pervasive and growing threat to the Internet. What do you do?Internet Denial of Service sheds light on a complex and fascinating form of computer attack that impacts the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of millions of computers worldwide. It tells the network administrator, corporate CTO, incident responder, and student how DDoS attacks are prepared and executed, how to think about DDoS, and how to arrange computer and network defenses. It also provides a suite of actions that can be taken before, during, and after an attack.Inside, you'll find comprehensive information on the following topics How denial-of-service attacks are waged How to improve your network's resilience …

Date

December 1, 2004

Authors

Jelena Mirkovic, Sven Dietrich, David Dittrich, Peter Reiher

Publisher

Prentice Hall PTR