DOS
DOS Attacks are know as Denial of service attacks which are know for their crippling of another computer system. They are attacks made by people sending information to another computer system attempting to crash the other computer. The attacks are done with super fast computers on super fast Internet connections.On Monday February 6, 2000 one of the largest Internet site, Yahoo.com, was crippled with a DOS attack by a large number of computers(Dube, "Web Under Attack", pars. 2-3). The next day Tuesday February 7, 2000 a large number of other high-profile web sites such as Buy.com, CNN.com, eBay.com, and Amazon.com, were crippled by a DOS attack(Dube, "Web Under Attack", pars. 2-3). The attacks continued on Wednesday February 8, 2000 taking down the sites of ETRADE.com and ZDNet.com(Dube, "Web Under Attack", pars. 2-3). Most these site were down for only a couple of hours but were quickly up and running after being discovered to be down(Dube, "Web Under Attack", pars. 2-3). The attacks against these sites were not in an attempt to obtain financial information from the companies that operated t
A DOS attack is commonly referred to as a hack because it is a malicious offensive against another computer system; buy unlike most other hacks, it does not let the hacker gain access to the other computer. Instead, a DOS is a merciless stream of information sent to a target with the intention of flooding it until it crashes or can no longer take legitimate traffic(Hooper, par. 3). These large attacks cause many people to wonder about the security of the Internet. With the growing change towards E-Business and the increase in technology the frequency of these attacks can only increase in numbers, some possible causing physical damage to either computers or people. he sites as in other attack try to do but rather they were attacks intending to disable the sites(Dube, "Web Under Attack", pars. 2-3). The FBI is investigating the attacks against the major computer systems, but with the use of compromised computers the attackers are pretty much untraceable. U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno has promised to bring the culprits to justice for their attacks. "[We are] committed in every way possible
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