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1.7.3 Case Study: Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks
A Denial of Service (DoS) attack overwhelms a system's resources, making them unavailable to legitimate users. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are more powerful, using large numbers of compromised machines (botnets) to flood the target.
- Botnets: Botnets like Mirai, which used vulnerable IoT devices, have been used to carry out large-scale DDoS attacks, such as ...