Answer to Question #193866 in Computer Networks for Zeeshan

Question

Do you ever see Denial of Service attacks while using the internet? If yes, share your event where you face this. If no, what is the possible event, where you would be facing this attack?

Answer 1

Denial of service attack: It is a type of attack in which attacker trying to shut down the machine or network. And makes it inaccessible. Attacker creates the flooding of traffic on the target network.

In this type cyber attack, there is no information gets stolen but it creates the server busy, in this user not able to connect to server.

This kind of attack we used to see in the commercial place such railway ticket booking kind of things or any offer used to disclose by the company and lots of user at a time getting logged at the same at the same moment attacker created floods of the request so server gets busy and the genuine user not able to connect to server.