Denial of Service Attacks

By: Anderson Lam, Ahnaf Azad, & Andre Harris
Denial of Service Attack (DoS Attack)

A Denial of Service Attack is when a hacker floods a server or computer with so much traffic that it eventually shuts down.

Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDos Attack)

A Distributed Denial of Service Attack is when a hacker floods a server or computer with traffic from multiple computers.

How to prevent a DoS or DDOS attack

Firewalls are the main method of stopping DDOS attacks. They can limit the amount of traffic servers receive and can block IP Addresses that send massive payloads. Firewalls can redirect packets to a non-existent server (Blackholing/Sinkholing)

Preferred Solution

Our preferred solution is blackholing. Firewalls can drop the packet instead of forwarding them and not use up valuable computing power.

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Availability

DDos/Dos attacks affect the availability of a computer because the servers become unusable. This will drive customers away and/or keep employees from completing their work.

Questions

Why might a hacker might execute a DDoS?
What kind of damage could occur from shutting down a server unexpectedly?
How can you detect a DDoS attack?

Server protected by firewall
Black Hat Hacker on a mission to take down the server.
Suzie: An unsuspecting victim who’s computer has become part of the hackers botnet.
An Agent of Chaos: This individual does not know how to hack but wanted to be apart of the hacker’s botnet to take down a server for no reason at all.

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