Denial of Service Attacks

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Summary

This Documentation is about the Basics of Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service Attacks.

Description what this documentation is about

Description

Denial of Service or Dos attacks aim to prevent that legitimate users access the comprised component. Due to Cisco, is the Dos Attack one of the seven most common types of cyber-attacks [1]. The reasons of the attacker can have many backgrounds. The Attack can am to cause facial loss to the attacked company by bringing the company website down. For example, in 2015 the by the time biggest DDos attack with 1,35 Tbps rained down on Github and put it off the line for 15 minutes [2]. There can also be a political reason, like in July 2008 where Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s webpage was targeted by a DDos attack. The webpage was inaccessible for two days. A trace back attempts showed that Commanding Server is located in Russia [3]. Since Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Home Devices get more popular, the number of IoT bots used for DDos Attacks rise day by day. This is caused due to poor security of IoT devices and the lack of security firmware updates.

References

• [1] https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/common-cyberattacks.html
• [2] https://www.wired.com/story/github-ddos-memcached/
• [3] https://ccdcoe.org/uploads/2018/10/12_NAZARIO-Politically-Motivated-DDoS.pdf

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