In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable...

The Bluetooth Low Energy denial of service attacks are a series of denial-of-service attacks against mobile phones and iPads via Bluetooth Low Energy...

A regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) is an algorithmic complexity attack that produces a denial-of-service by providing a regular expression...

computer security, a billion laughs attack is a type of denial-of-service (DoS) attack which is aimed at parsers of XML documents. It is also referred...

Distributed denial-of-service attacks on root nameservers are Internet events in which distributed denial-of-service attacks target one or more of the thirteen...

A Wi-Fi deauthentication attack is a type of denial-of-service attack that targets communication between a user and a Wi-Fi wireless access point. Unlike...

A SYN flood is a form of denial-of-service attack on data communications in which an attacker rapidly initiates a connection to a server without finalizing...

A Smurf attack is a distributed denial-of-service attack in which large numbers of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets with the intended victim's...

The service has experienced several cases of losing customer data. On June 11, 2014, Evernote suffered a distributed denial-of-service attack that prevented...

held that the sole purpose of the worm was to perpetrate a distributed denial-of-service attack against SCO Group. 25 percent of Mydoom.A-infected hosts...

consequences. In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a machine...

distributed denial-of-service attacks were launched against the Domain Name System (DNS) provider Dyn. The attack caused major Internet platforms and services to...

Slowloris is a type of denial of service attack tool which allows a single machine to take down another machine's web server with minimal bandwidth and...

A UDP flood attack is a volumetric denial-of-service (DoS) attack using the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), a sessionless/connectionless computer networking...

much of the loot as he could carry. Denial-of-service attack Digest access authentication Man-in-the-middle attack Pre-play attack Relay attack Session...

(CVE-2002-20001) disclosed a denial-of-service attack (DoS) against the protocol variants use ephemeral keys, called D(HE)at attack. The attack exploits that the...

such as spreading e-mail spam and launching distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks) against web servers. Most victims are unaware that their...

system. They are a form of denial-of-service attack but are different from distributed denial-of-service attacks, which involve overwhelming a network...

trinoo attacks are described in CERT Incident Note 99–04. A trinoo network has been connected to the February 2000 distributed denial of service attack on...

(HOIC) is an open-source network stress testing and denial-of-service attack application designed to attack as many as 256 URLs at the same time. It was designed...

mailbox, overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial-of-service attack or as a smoke screen to distract the attention from important email...

firewall rule, many forms of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are possible, where the attack comes from a large number of points. In this case...

Stresser (or booter) services provide denial-of-service attack as a service, usually as a criminal enterprise. They have simple front ends, and accept...

normal traffic fails to reach the system (a basic denial-of-service attack). The ping of death attack has been largely neutralized by advancements in technology...

antispyware software. Early detection of the Spybot worm usually comes from network engineers detecting the Denial of Service attack generated when the worm tried...

Ferguson & D. Senie (May 2000). Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing]. doi:10.17487/RFC2827...

exceptionally large distributed denial of service attack launched against them in March 2013. Because of the size of this attack it received considerable mainstream...

activities on the dark web. One of the largest sites, Lolita City, hosted by Freedom Hosting, was subject to a denial-of-service attack (DDoS), and later had its...

becomes the prominent victim of a new type of hack that attacks the domain name server. In these denial-of-service attacks, the DNS paths that take users...

as well as denying the recipient use of their own machine (similar to computer-based denial of service attacks). This is made easier because fax transmission...