Re: [SLE] Denial of Service

Charlie Ti wrote:

I heard a lot of attak by denial of service. But I can't get what it is. Can somebody explain it to me or point a site about it.

Briefly: a Denial of Service attack occurs when an attacker floods a website with spurious, useless Internet packets, thus consuming the website's entire capacity to process incoming traffic. A Distributed Denial of Service attack occurs when the attacker plants zombie processes at other websites and each of those processes produces a Denial of Service attack on command. The hosts for the zombie processes are innocent victims whose resources are used to mount the attack. Paul