Denial-of-service

Building Services Analytics BG 75/2018, was written by Mitch Layng and published by BSRIA in September 2018. It states in relation to Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks:

“An attacker can cause a network to fail for a period of time by sending a barrage of requests and useless traffic that slows it down to the point of being unusable. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on a network is typically carried out by multiple cybercriminals or machines. Cybercriminals create botnets by infecting a collection of computers – sometimes hundreds or thousands – with malware that gives them control of the machines, allowing them to stage their attack, as described above.”

--BSRIA

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