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In this session we are going to learn how hackers attack a website with Denial of Service. As we already know doing this attack is not legal but we have to learn inorder to understand how it spoils the services to the customers that the website is providing.
Also, we here in this session are going to learn the basics of Denial of service. The main idea of this lesson is to check whether the website we are securing is capable of load balancing or any alternate process can be done to divert the malicious packages to other servers.
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet.
Denial of service is typically accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled.
In a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack), the incoming traffic flooding the victim originates from many different sources. This effectively makes it impossible to stop the attack simply by blocking a single source.