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And he brings to you...
Fourth Crime---> DoS Attack

DoS Attack

A Denial-of-Service(DoS) attack is an explict attempt by attackers to deny the user intends to access. It involves overloading of computer resources with more requests that it can attend, taking up all its space availabe resulting in system overload. This causes the resource to crash or slowdown at a significant speed so that no one can access it. Using this technique, attacker can render a website unusable by sending large amounts of traffic to the targeted site. A site may stop working rather crash completely or start malfunctioning , in any of the cases it results in the inappropriate communication by the system. DoS attacks violate the acceptable use of policies of virtually all internet service providers.

DDoS Attack

Yeah you must be thinking that thats it...but it's a big  NO. This stupid attack has a variation too!! It is known as the "Disterbution -Denial-of-Service" The DoS and DDoS aim high profile sites such as Yahoo, eBay!, Amazon and many others that you might know and I might not...