COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY
WHAT IS A DENIAL OF SERVICE DOS ATTACK
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the attacker may have a personal dislike of the company
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the attacker is behaving in accordance with the Computer Misuse Act (1990)
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the attacker may have a political or ethical dislike of the company
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the attacker may have been paid by someone else, eg a competitor or pressure group, to take down the comapny’s server
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Detailed explanation-1: -However, the following symptoms could indicate a DoS or DDoS attack: Unusually slow network performance (opening files or accessing websites), Unavailability of a particular website, or. An inability to access any website.
Detailed explanation-2: -A denial-of-service attack is designed to slow or take down machines or networks making them inaccessible for the people who need them. Information systems, devices or other resources on the network or machine-email, online accounts, ecommerce sites, and other services-become unusable in a DoS condition.
Detailed explanation-3: -In a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, multiple compromised computer systems attack a target and cause a denial of service for users of the targeted resource. The target can be a server, website or other network resource.