In computing, a denial-of-service attack (#DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet. Denial of service is typically accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled. **************** More Cyber security courses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvDg17PbSnU ****************** == Attribution Course Created by: Steven Gordon Visit: null License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) *********** Join our community and stay up to date with computer science ******************** Join our FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cslesson Like our FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/cslesson/ Website: https://cslesson.org/