Denial of service (2.4)

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denial of service

forcing a service to fail; overloading a service

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what are some reasons for DOS?

used for a competitive advantage or creating a smokescreen for another exploit

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“friendly” DOS

unintentional DoSing

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what examples of friendly DoSing?

network DoS (layer 2 loop without STP), bandwidth DoS

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Distributed Denial of service (DDoS)

launching an army of computers to bring down a service

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Botnet

robots that are under the control of an attacker and the attacker can tell the botnet to target a specific web server

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Asymmetric threat

the attacker has few resources but can easily bring down orgs that are much bigger than them

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DDoS reflection and amplification

turning small pieces of info that the targeted system receives and amplifies the amount of info