Denial of Service is a family of attacks that attempt to force a target to use up resources (CPU time, memory, bandwidth etc) through flood a target with useless packets, connections or tasks
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SSL vs TLS, which is less vulnerable to DOS attacks?
When I learned TLS does not allow a connection to be created until it is has finished a secure handshake, i figured that would make it better for preventing DoS attacks.
However, all I seem to find ...
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Why would you want to initiate a DoS attack on a system you are testing?
What is the value of a DoS attack as part of a security assessment? this is the question asked to me in EC council's exam preparation, so need to know. not intending any attack
