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
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