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Ip Traceback Of Denial Of Service Attacks Using Mobile Agents Technology, Ghada Magdi Hashem El-Keissi Feb 2004

Ip Traceback Of Denial Of Service Attacks Using Mobile Agents Technology, Ghada Magdi Hashem El-Keissi

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Denial of Service (DoS) attack is considered a critical threat to networks. A DoS is a destructive attack aiming at denying services to legitimate users. An attacker could create an attack that floods a network, disrupts a connection between two computers, or even crashes a computer. Accordingly, legitimate users will not be able to have access to services needed. DoS attacks could originate from a single attacker or it could originate from multiple attackers creating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks towards a target victim. One of the main problems ofDoS attacks is the ability of an attacker to forge …