LOT2 Task 1 Diagram Below is a diagram which illustrates how the attack overwhelmed the Web Server. Executive Summary The attack performed on the network had the intention of making the online services provided to students unusable during a critical time of need for those systems. The attack was first performed by acquiring the Administrator password for the systems and using each system to perform a large quantity of requests for service to the web servers. By
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Brandon Moore LOT2 Task 1 09/14/2011 Diagram Below is a diagram which illustrates how the attack overwhelmed the Web Server. Executive Summary The attack performed on the network had the intention of making the online services provided to students unusable during a critical time of need for those systems. The attack was first performed by acquiring the Administrator password for the systems and using each system to perform a large quantity of requests for service to the web servers
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Recently the university web-based registration system was the subject of a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. This type of attack is characterized by flooding the target system(s) with more network traffic than it can process, thereby forcing the system offline or limiting its ability to respond to legitimate traffic to a negligible level. It is different from a DoS (Denial of Service), in that multiple computers (potentially thousands) are used to increase the amount of traffic sent
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Brandon Moore LOT2 Task 1 09/14/2011 Diagram Below is a diagram which illustrates how the attack overwhelmed the Web Server. Executive Summary The attack performed on the network had the intention of making the online services provided to students unusable during a critical time of need for those systems. The attack was first performed by acquiring the Administrator password for the systems and using each system to perform a large quantity of requests for service
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