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-A denial of service attack prevents a machine from carrying out its main duties - for example, preventing a web server
from serving up pages.
+A denial of service ([DoS])
attack prevents a machine from carrying out its main duties -
- for example, preventing a WebServer
from serving up pages.
-A distributed denial of service attack normally means many clients are sending repeated requests to a machine to saturate its bandwidth, preventing legitimate requests to get
through. These
clients have
typically been
infected with a virus and are sent instructions regarding
when and where to attack. They are then
known as "zombies
".
+A distributed denial of service ([DDoS])
attack normally means many clients are sending repeated requests to a machine to saturate its bandwidth and/or processing capacity
, preventing legitimate requests from getting
through. Nowdays, the
clients participating in such an attack are
typically so-called "__zombies__", machines
infected with a [Virus] or [Worm] containing remote control facilities, typically by joining a secret, password protected channel on some [IRC] server. They can then be instructed to
when and where to attack from there
. Such a group of zombies is
known as a
"__bot net__
".
