Distributed Denial of Service
Denny Cherry · Apress eBooks · 2022
A denial-of-service attack is a network attack in which the person who is committing the attack is attempting to flood the network of the company they are attacking. This attack works by sending a mass of traffic from the source network to the target network. The network traffic sent as part of a denial-of-service attack is random, generic data that can be discarded. While the data is garbage data, it appears legitimate enough that the network devices accept the data and attempt to process it.