Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Denial of service:






This is when people make a website become unavailable. It all starts when the person trying to destroy the website sends a fake email to a computer user asking for approval by asking questions and then the computer user sends something back it allows the person trying to make the website unavailable access to the server to disable the website. There are several reasons why these types of attack might be made. This includes an example like; a criminal might attempt to blackmail an online retail company by threatening to attack the site unless given a large sum of money. I personally think this is cruel and greedy over money. Sometimes political sites are attacked in this way by people who don’t agree with the political views expressed on the sites.

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