Network and Computer Security

We often see articles and sews about denial of service and distributed denial of service attacks (”DoS” and “DDoS”), but besides the fact they render a service useless by trying to overloading it, few details are usually given.

As it turns out, the mechanism is a bit more complicated and it’s not exactly an ‘Overloading’ of the service is the sence we usually mean it, but most of the time it’s actually a flood of the networking layer of the target machine(s).

Abhishek Singh wrote a very good acticle that explains this technique very well. It’s a very good read and a very well illustrated article. Definately worth the read!