CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks is an endeavor to make computer resources unavailable to the legitimate users. A DoS attack will try to consume as much resources as it can so as to deny legitimate users the chance of having services or resources available to them. There are several categories of DoS attacks. The DoS attacks are not the same in terms of how they are perpetrated. Depending on the method of perpetration, one category of DoS can be easy or hard to stop. 1
A denial of service attack involves sending numerous communication requests to the ...