Types of Dos Attack

There are 3 types of Dos attacks:

1.  Application-layer flood: In this type of attack, an attacker sends a large number of requests on a server, which results in server crashes and slow speeds of the network. In  Application-layer flood requests may vary within the range of thousands in a second to million, which consume huge resources until the server crash or is unreachable to the user.

2. Distributed Denial of Services Attacks: There is not much difference between a Dos and DDoS attack. In this attack, not only one computer sends requests but several computers are engaged in sending requests to a specific target, making it disabled. These computers have been hacked earlier and can be controlled by the attacker.

3. Unintended Denial of Service Attacks: This type of attack is wicked, i.e they are not nefarious. In this attack, websites are overwhelmingly flooded with legitimate traffic to their destination where the server is brought down completely.

Dos attack is a denial-of-service attack which affects the server or a website via sending a request of traffic and making it unreachable or unavailable.This article will help you to know the working of a dos attack on a Wifi.