Anatomy of a distributed denial of service attack (DDOS)
by Stéphane Lee
It is very easy, these days, to launch a DDOS attack on a server or website. Thousands of computers can be controlled centrally by one person. The “zombies” get their orders usually through an IRC chat channel.
There are basically two types of denial of service attack:
1. UDP Flood
Fake UDP packets are sent to the victim [...]
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