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Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDOS)

Overview What is a distributed denial of service attack?
A distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) is one in which an attacker first compromises a number of hosts, and installs a daemon on those hosts. At a later point, the attacker sends a request to the daemon on the compromised hosts asking it to begin flooding a target host with various types of packets. The ensuing massive stream of data overwhelms the victim's hosts or routers, rendering them unable to provide service.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory	File Format	WORD
Date Published	August 2003	Downloads	17
Format	White Papers
Topics	Switching, Denial of Service

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