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Concepts of Denial-of-Service Attack & Distributed Denial of Service Attack

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For a better understanding of Denial-of-Service Attack & Distributed Denial of Service (DoS/DDoS) attacks, one must be familiar with their concepts beforehand. This module discusses what a DoS attack is, what a DDoS attack is, and how the DDoS attacks work. What is a Denial-of-Service Attack? DoS is an attack on a computer or network that reduces, restricts, or prevents accessibility of system resources to its legitimate users. In a DOS attack, attackers flood a …

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Defend Against Spyware

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Spyware Spyware is defended any computer virus installed into a user’s system without the user’s knowledge and gathers tip like personal data and access logs. Spyware comes from three basic sources: Free downloaded software, email attachments, and websites that automatically install spyware once you browse them. Here are ways to defend against spyware: Try to avoid using any computing system which isn’t totally under your control. Never adjust your Internet security setting level too low …

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Foot printing tools

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Attackers are aided in foot printing with the help of various tools. Many organizations offer that make information gathering an easy task. This section describe stools intended for obtaining information from various sources. Foot printing tools are used to collect basic information about the target systems in order to Exploit them. Information collected by the foot printing tools contain target’s IP location information, routing information, business information, address, phone number and social security number, details …

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