Different Types of Denial of Service Attacks and some prevantative measures for your network.

These days there are significant increases in network-based attacks and among them is the dreaded Denial-of-Service attack, which can leave your systems either unusable or unreachable. Although these attacks don’t make the news as often as they did when Yahoo.com was taken down by a massive Distributed Denial of Service attack, they are still prevalent. This article will discuss who launches them, why they are successful, the types of attacks used and which ones are more threatening than others. This article will also show you protocol fundamentals, decodes, hardening and detection techniques and was to protect yourself from potential threat.