Monday, February 13, 2012 - 19:49
Typical Denial of Service abuse (DoS) involves a very large number of connections or packets being directed to the target computer, either from a single source IP address or (Distributed Denial of Service, DDoS) from a number of addresses, possibly a large number and probably in several different networks. Sometimes the effect is to stop the data network working or make it so slow as to interfere with its normal use; sometimes the target is a single machine which also may cease to work or run very slowly.