A DoS (Denial of Service) attack is a cyber attack targeting the availability of web applications that carries out on networks, websites and online resources in order to restrict access to its legitimate users. The Dos is accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled. A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is prevalent on the web from the DoS attack, where the attack originates from multiple computers simultaneously, therefore causing the victim’s resources exhaustion.
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