Denial of Service Attacks: Tools and Categories

Abstract

DoS attacks cause severe damage to services available online. This kind of attacks try to prevent legitimate users from using their rights to online services by bringing down servers. Issues in Internet security provide the hackers with ways to attack network systems. These attacks can be performed using many tools and techniques. This paper gives an overview on DoS attacks categories and tools. Also, it defines the most known Dos attack incidents and explains the IP Spoofing.