Understanding And Learning How Prevent And Minimize Distributed Denial Of Service

Denial of Service (DoS) attack is a very common cyber menace that renders websites and other online means inaccessible to intended users. There are various types of DoS threats and nearly all directly target the core server structure. Others abuse weaknesses in application and communication proprieties. DoS is also used as a cover-up for other wicked actions, and to take down security applications like web firewalls. A prosperous DoS attack is very obvious and impacts the entire online user base.

(Samuel Folledo) How many of us know exactly what Denial-of-Service attacks is? Aside from how powerful and easy it is to perform these attacks, its mysteriousness alone illustrates a huge danger in the computer world. A deep understanding of DoS can save a lot of headaches as these cybercriminals are able to steal from personal informations to bringing down sites and companies. The first wall of prevention against these attacks is always awareness. This is why being knowledgeable on Denial-of-Service attacks important. (End of Intro)

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is a general name for any kind of attack against data availability. In the Web application world, a DoS attack aims to “take down” the site in order to make it inaccessible to its users. This may cause some serious financial damage to the site, both directly and indirectly by damaging its reputation.

Denial of service cyberattacks are attacks on websites that make them inaccessible to normal people. While a lot of cyberattacks are used to steal information, denial of service attacks don’t try to. Instead, they try to make website servers unavailable and in some cases, they are “used as a smokescreen for other malicious activities,” like trying to take down firewalls. A successful denial of service attack impacts a very large number of people, so hackers and other people like to use this to send messages to the public. Denial of Service attacks can last for months; this makes them very dangerous for online businesses. They make companies lose money and customers and inconvenience everyday users. These reasons are

As the world has come into the 21st century, there is one prominent and constant fact - everyone is on the internet. Whether willingly or not, information like house addresses, social security numbers, and credit card numbers can be put out and obtained through the internet. It is unusual for a business, even an individual person, to not have a website. Knowing the types of threats that are out there is the first step to implementing protection measures. While there are many types of well-known threats in existence, there are even more types of common, yet less well-known threats out there.

A DoS Attack, or Denial-of-Service attack, is an attack that that fill a network with lots of useless traffic. Many DoS attacks, such as the Ping of Death and Teardrop attacks, exploit limitations in the TCP/IP protocols. A couple of the most recent DoS attacks have been directed to Capitol One and SunTrust Banks. In October Capital One and SunTrust were attacked by this Denial-of-Service. Capital One’s website was inaccessible for 8 hours because the network was just filled with useless traffic. In the next couple of days SunTrust bank suffered performance issues.

Distributed denial of service attack is a coordinated denial of service attack against a computer or network that occurs from multiple sources and locations to halt or disrupt legitimate use of its resources. Denial of service attack may affects software systems, network, routers, equipment, servers, and personal PCs. In distributed denial of service attack, a master program scans remote machines to find security holes. Once vulnerable hosts are exploited and injected with malicious code, the agents initiate the attack to infect further machines using client/server technology. A number of denial of service attacks include Network Level Service which affects routers, IP switches, and firewall, OS Level which affects equipment vendor OS, and

Denial-of-service (Dos) attacks that stop access to authorized users of a website. The site is forced to propose a reduced level of service or, in some cases, stops operation thoroughly.

In this report I will be describing the ways in which networks can be attacked, also be giving real life example of each of the below.

A cyber-criminal can create a denial-of-service attack by sending spam emails to a network. The spam emails can be sent to an email account supplied by an employer or a free email account offered by Hotmail and Yahoo. With each email account, the user is assigned a specific quota that specifies the amount of space the account can have at a given time. If the cyber-criminal sends large amounts of spam messages to a user’s email account then the quota will be exceeded and prevent the user from receiving legitimate messages.

As the term was used more frequently, I started to learn that this concept was real and frankly frightening. A DDOS attack meant a distributed denial of service attack, causing one’s Minecraft character to disconnect from the server and drop everything they had for the other players to steal. The fact that someone could use the machine I do homework on to impact another person’s computer was fascinating to me. I asked about the DDOS attack and was told that one can “resolve” someone’s “IP” from their Skype name and use a “botnet” to take out their Wi-Fi. I figured this idea was too complicated to be true, so I ignored it and continued to play. Until one day I conflicted with the wrong person and spent the next 30 minutes without Wi-Fi. After that, I spent many hours researching how this was possible. I watched videos, read blogs, and joined many forums, trying to get a grasp on the topic. My goal: to never have my system compromised again. Through all my hard work, I became famous on the Minecraft server because no matter how agitated people became, they were not able to find my IP. I made it my business to help every player have the same protection, soon helping more than 20 people. From that point on, cyber-security became my passion. I am still blown away by everything a computer can do.

Imagine that you get home from a hard day at work or school, have a bite to eat, and then sit at your computer. After you've checked your e-mail, you're ready to play an online game. Excitement begins to build, but then you notice your browser was denied access to your network, preventing you from connecting to the Internet. In desperation, you turn your computer's power off and restart it. After the reboot, your computer still cannot reach any networked service. Since only your computer was involved, you think it may be a Denial of Service attack. However, days later you learn that the attack you experienced was a Distributed Denial of Service, an attack involving numerous computers that flooded the game servers and prevented anyone from gaining

The messages sent out on Twitter by Payne on December 2, 2014, contained a link for a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on the SLCPA website. The distributed (DDoS) was an attempt to make a machine or network resource inaccessible to its intended users. Networks have a limited amount of connections at any given time. The defendant exploited this limit by initiating as many connections with SLCPA website,

This type of attack is usually used for bringing down the systems at once by constantly sending massive amount of URL requests or overloading the server’s network traffic with bogus information. This is purposefully done to either a user’s system or the whole network to interrupt it partially or render it completely useless. When the system is brought down to its knees, the crackers either transform the complete system/website or do some manipulate some particular component to benefit from

Denial-of-Service attack (DoS) when a hacker continuously attacks a particular network or dedicated Access Point (AP) with fake requests, failure messages and premature successful connection messages and other commands. These causes authorized users from preventing connecting to the network and results in network failure or crash. These attacks depends on misuse of protocols like Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP).