DoS (Denial of Service) attack
January 15th, 2008 by Igor Pankov
DoS (Denial of Service) attack – is a network attack, when a server gets multitude requests for services provided by the system. The server spends its resources for making the connection and serving it, but under a certain request flow fails to manage it. Protection against such attacks is based on analyzing sources of abnormal volume of traffic and stopping them.
Posted in Security Glossary
January 17th, 2008 at 4:47 am
Lots of mail comes around with lovely stories and promises of blessings if sent on to 8 others. (or more) Like chain letters of old this multiplies as each recipients resends. This provides a growing volume and so would expect it to reach critical levels and deny service. Obvious solution is everybody do not send on, the blessings are not there anyway!
Also SPAM volumes are increasing for most users un-noticed as they have SPAM filters but the ISP has to carry them.
January 20th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
is that resonable way to protect against it ?