Denial of Service Distributed Denial of Service

Denial of Service, Distributed Denial of Service 

Recently, internet Service Providers (lSP) in Maharashtra were target to what is known as a Distributed Denial of Service  Attacks (DDOS Attack). As a result, a number of customers did not have access to internet for some time. 


This was one the biggest DDOS attacks with the traffic of 200 GBPS being generated by the Attacker group.  

A few years ago, ‘Rahul'. a teenage boy from Maharashtra,had been convicted (jailed) for joining a Hacktivist group for carrying a DDOS attack on a Reputed Bank. Rahul had used his personal computer to bombard a bank's website by continuously sending access request to the bank's web application. This in turn made the bank's web application slow and prevented other from getting access to the  login page.

Such distributed Denial of Services (DDOS) attacks are usually conducted by use of zombies and , BOTS(i.e. malware that has got downloaded on other user's computers) that is controlled remotely by an attacker.These system belong to individuals,who are not aware that their computer is being used for the DDOS attack!

 


How to keep your computer safe 
1) Keep your system up to date with latest updates of licensed software.
 2) Use Up-to date Anti-virus software 
3) Do not use Unlicensed or Pirated software
4)  Check your system network performance if your Internet is slow