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The motives behind launching a DoS attack vary as widely as the targets themselves.

Groups may target government or corporate websites to protest policies or social issues. Denial_of_Service.rar

Identifying specific patterns of "bad" traffic that indicate a logic attack. Conclusion The motives behind launching a DoS attack vary

By commanding thousands of "zombie" devices to ping a single target simultaneously, the attacker creates a traffic spike that is nearly impossible to block via simple IP filtering. Furthermore, the use of —such as spoofing a target's IP to request data from DNS or NTP servers—allows an attacker to turn a small amount of outgoing traffic into a massive "tidal wave" of data hitting the victim. 3. Motivations and Impact Denial_of_Service.rar