Dos Glossary
Browse 6 dos terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
6 Dos Terms
- Flood Attack
- An attack that overwhelms a service, link, or system by sending a high volume of traffic or requests until resources are exhausted. Flood attacks can target...
- Gzip Bomb
- A highly compressed file crafted to expand to an enormous size when decompressed, consuming storage, memory, or CPU and potentially causing denial of service....
- Keepalive Attack
- An attack that abuses connection keepalive behavior to tie up server resources by holding many sessions open cheaply for the attacker but expensively for the...
- Low and Slow Attack
- An attack carried out gradually and with low per-connection or per-event volume so it stays below obvious detection thresholds while still causing damage or...
- Ping Flood
- A denial-of-service attack that overwhelms a target with large numbers of ICMP echo requests, consuming bandwidth, CPU, or response handling capacity. Ping...
- Resource Exhaustion
- A condition in which CPU, memory, file handles, threads, storage, connection slots, or another limited resource is consumed until normal operations fail....
Related Topics
- Availability (2 terms in common)
- Connections (1 terms in common)
- Traffic Flooding (1 terms in common)
- Compression Bomb (1 terms in common)
- Protocol Abuse (1 terms in common)
- Resources (1 terms in common)
- Evasion (1 terms in common)
- File Handling (1 terms in common)
- Flooding (1 terms in common)
- Icmp (1 terms in common)
- Stealth (1 terms in common)