How Does a Denial Of Service Attack Work?
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A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is an attempt to make a computer or network resource unavailable to its intended users by flooding it with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled. A DoS attack can be conducted in a variety of ways, typically either by flooding the target with traffic from multiple sources or by sending it a very large file or message that is too large for the target to process. In some cases, attackers may use multiple techniques in order to increase the effectiveness of their attack and prevent any attempted countermeasures from being successful.