AN INTROSPECTIVE VIEW OF DENIAL OF SERVICE (DOS): DETECTION, PREVENTION, AND MITIGATION
Hak Jun Kim · 2013
Growth and advancements in technology have paved the way for people to have unlimited connectivity, but with this limitless connection to the Internet and extensive use of online resources there are many chances for malicious activities including hacking attacks. One of the most popular types of attacks in the Internet is Denial of Service (DoS). The DoS attack is an attack to make the company’s resources unavailable to the user with ease and little or no cost to the attacker. This attack is very real and is becoming popular. This paper discusses the DoS attacks and then investigates methods and techniques to detect, prevent, and mitigate malicious DoS attacks.