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Security on IP Networks: Countering Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks An Overview of the Key Challenges and Countermeasures

Overview The paper introduces the concept of denial-of-service. Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks have emerged as the latest threat to globally linked networks. In just the few months since their first appearance, DoS attacks have already taken some of the most popular e-commerce sites off-line for several hours, causing enormous losses and repair costs.

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Publisher	Extreme Networks	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	January 2002	Downloads	7
Format	White Papers
Topics	IP Technologies, Denial of Service

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