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Protect your Web site.(Brief Article)
Industrial Distribution, August, 2000 by Harper, Doug
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Distributors can learn from highly publicized "denial of service" attacks Earlier this year numerous popular Web sites, including Amazon.com, Yahoo, Zdnet.com, EBay.com and CNN.com, were temporarily shut down in highly publicized denial of service (DOS) attacks. To be successful, a DOS attacker doesn't need to penetrate a Web site, but merely to overwhelm it with more traffic than it can handle.
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In practice, a DOS attack is analogous to maliciously dialing the same phone number repeatedly so that legitimate calls are unable to get through. While DOS attacks are ...
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