Denial of service (DoS) attacks against big Internet players like Amazon.com draw media attention, but according to a new study, these electronic assaults frequently are targeted against individual personal computers. DoS attacks disable Web servers on the Internet by overloading them with messages, according to the study. Attackers attempt to hide their tracks by using false source addresses.
Network researchers at the University of California, San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) performed the study which measured three one-week periods with short breaks between the monitoring times.
The researchers counted over 12,000 DoS attacks against 5,000 targets during the study period. Some attackers directed more than 600,000 message packets per second at their victims.
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