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Denial of service(DOS) and Distributed Denial of service(DDOS) attack


A denial-of-service attack overwhelms a system’s resources so that it cannot respond to service requests. A DDoS attack is also an attack on the system’s resources, but it is launched from a large number of other host machines (Botnets) that are infected by malicious software

controlled by the attacker.

Types of DOS\DDOS attacks:

Mitigations for DOS and DDOS attacks :