BACKGROUND

A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is an action taken by a rogue entity in order to temporarily or indefinitely disrupt or otherwise disable a service of a host connected to a network. A DoS attack may occur by taking advantage of bugs at a target network resource, and transmitting specific requests to exploit these vulnerabilities, or by inundating a targeted network resource with needless traffic to overload the network resource and prevent the fulfillment of authentic requests for service.

