COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY
WHAT IS COMPUTER SECURITY
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Denialof Service (DoS)
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DistributedDoS(DDoS)
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SYNFlood
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Spoofing
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Detailed explanation-1: -A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is an attack meant to shut down a machine or network, making it inaccessible to its intended users. DoS attacks accomplish this by flooding the target with traffic, or sending it information that triggers a crash.
Detailed explanation-2: -A DoS attack is a denial of service attack where a computer is used to flood a server with TCP and UDP packets. A DDoS attack is where multiple systems target a single system with a DoS attack. The targeted network is then bombarded with packets from multiple locations. All DDoS = DoS but not all DoS = DDoS.
Detailed explanation-3: -A DDoS attack depletes the server resources and increases the website load time. When a DDoS attack hits a website, it may suffer performance issues or crash the server completely by overwhelming the server’ resources such as CPU, memory or even the entire network.