Distributed denial of service attacks

Lau, Felix; H. Rubin, Stuart; H. Smith, Michael; Trajković, Ljiljana

doi:10.1109/icsmc.2000.886455

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Distributed denial of service attacks

Published • Nov 8, 2002

Authors:

Felix Lau

Stuart H. Rubin

Michael H. Smith

Abstract

We discuss distributed denial of service attacks in the Internet. We were motivated by the widely known February 2000 distributed attacks on Yahoo!, Amazon.com, CNN.com, and other major Web sites. A denial of service is characterized by an explicit attempt by an attacker to prevent legitimate users ...

Subject

Denial-of-service attack

Computer science

Computer network

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