| What is a DDOS attack?
First of all full form of DDOS attack which is denial-of-service attack. And now the important aspects of DDOS attack which is to stop intended users to access the website. And attacker tried that resources will not available to the required users.
Now know comes how attacker will do that attacker will flooded the targeted machine or available resources with superfluous requests which will overload systems and also prevent legitimate requests being fulfilled.
In a DDoS attack incoming traffic flooding the victim originates from many different sources. Below are the main points of DDOS attack:-
(1)Main goal is to render the website or service inoperable.
(2)Send as much as artifical traffic so that server or network can accommodate.
(3)DDoS attacks are illegal under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
(4)Most coomon DDos attack are
(a)Malware
(b)Viruses | | |