denial of service

Denial Of Service Attacks One of the most common attacks on insecure e-commerce systems comes in the form of denial of service attacks. Denial of service attacks can literally overload a server to the point where it can no longer function. This shutdown halts all business transactions that were taking place at the time, and does not allow for potential transactions. When a company’s computers are clogged up by this form of attack they …

…this because it thinks it is coming from the legitimate sender. This requires sophisticated software and is not highly likely to occur. If it does though, an attacker can send viruses over this connection or can simply gain complete access to the receiving site, jeopardizing critical private information and the server itself. Once the connection is hijacked the attacker can also delete essential files or introduce malicious code causing the system to crash. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**