Hello, guys so over today's topic is DDoS attack which stands for denial of service and we will try to understand. 

This as easy way as we can basically this attack is based on the fact that device has operational limits right everything at its own limit and even a machine also a computer system also we can judge the limit of a computer system in very different ways including the numbers of simultaneous user the size of files the speed of data transmission or the amount of data. 

Cyber Security Beginners Guide About Denial Of Service ( DOS ) 2020

You know stored in that pc these are various limits by which we can measure but there is one more thing also if you can Floyd a web server with more request than it can process it will overload and will no longer be able to respond the further request this reality underlies the dose attack this is what it is simply overloading the system with the lots of requests and it will no longer able to respond to legitimate users who are attempting to access the webserver right. 

A denial service is an attack as meant to shut down a machine or a network by making it inaccessible to its intended user dos attack accomplish this by flooding the targets with a target with traffic or sending information that triggers a crash a minute to crash the whole system by sending lots of packet by increasing the traffic and there are very different ways of doing that on which we will discuss just like sy implants morph attack. 

A lot of things and now let us talk about the different phase of performing dos attack one of them is syn flood attack first of all what is elsewhere in request svn are the packets normally generated when a client attempt to start a TCP connection to a server the client and the server exchange is a serious series of messages which normally run likes this the client request. 

A connection by sending a syn which stands for a cycle synchronize message to the server and then this syn ak ack acknowledgement thing goes on and we can keep on messaging each other now let's move on what is svi and flood sending a flood of pinks is a most parametric method of performing a dos attack one of the very popular versions of dos attack is the syn flood. 

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This particular attack depends on the hacker's knowledge of how connections are made to the server when a session is started initiated between the client and server in a network using a TCP protocol a small buffer space in memory is set aside on the server to handle the handshaking exchange of the message that set up the session that we talked later than s5. 

This session establishing packets including a syn field that identified the sequence in the message exchange and then a syn flood attempts to disrupt this process in this attack the attacker sends the number of connections to request very rapidly and then fail to respond to the reply then it is sent back by the server, in other words, the attacker request connections and then never follow through with the request connection sequence. 

This effect leaves connections on the server half open and reserves the buffer allocated memory making it not available to another application although the packet in the buffer is dropped after a certain period of time which usually takes three minutes without a reply the effect of these false connection requests make makes it difficult for a legitimate response to establish within a session and this period of time and these things give a chance of one another dos attack. 

Now we will talk one another type which is smurf attack this is also one of the popular types it is named after the application first you to execute this type of attack since Merv attacked an ICMP packet is sent out to the broadcast address of a network but its returns address has been alerted to match one of the computers on the network mostly like as a key server. 

All the computers on the network will then respond by pinging the target computer then ICMP packets use the internet control message protocol to send an error message on the internet as the address of the packets are sent to broadcast address that address responds by echoing the packet out of all hosts on the network that then sends it to the spoofed source address continuously sending. 

Such packets will cause the network to perform a dos attack on one or more of the members as per hacker's perspective this attack is both clever and simple but the greatest difficulty here is to get the packet to start on the target network this can be x you know this can we can do via certain software such as a virus or trojan horse or there are many available uh user datagram protocols. 

This is a connectionless protocol that does not require any connection setup procedure to transfer data tcp packets connect and wait for the reception to acknowledge the reset before sending the next packet that we see later in our video also that particular diagram where svn is going and there's acknowledgement which has been. 

You know approved by the recipient and then the connection is going on and it keeps on allowing each other to message now each packet is confirmed the UDP packet simply send the packets without confirmation this allow packets to be sent much faster making easier to perform a dos attack a UDP flood attack occurs when attackers send a UDP packet to a random port on the victim system when the victim system received UDP packet. 

It will determine what application is waiting to the destination port when it realizes that no application is waiting on the port it will generate an ICMP packet of the destination unreachable to the fork source address of enough UDP packet the port on the victim the system will go down and that's it for today's article guys. 

Conclusion

I hope I covered the uh important topics of dos attack there are many others also in there are you know different types of tools in the market which has been used for dose attack we will cover those also in our other articles.