Denial of Service Attacks (1)
Against companies to make their computers unusable; damage the company image
Takes systems attention from real attack
There are countless DoS attacks out there today ftp://info.cert.org/pub/tech_tips/denial_of_service
Various forms:
- SYN Flooding
- Land and similar
- Teardrop and similar
- Smurf, papasmurf
- Ping o’Death