Pluralsight is not an official partner or accredited training center of EC-Council. Denial of service attacks typically seek to render a service unavailable by flooding it with malicious traffic so that it becomes unresponsive to legitimate requests. In this course, Ethical Hacking: Denial of Service (part of the Ethical Hacking series), you’ll look at the purposes of these attacks, ranging from disrupting gaming adversaries, to hacktivism, and to law enforcement by government agencies. You’ll also explore various ways attacks are constructed and the weaknesses they exploit in order to be successful. Finally, you’ll delve into defensive patterns to help protect services from malicious attacks. By the end of this course, you’ll have a much better understanding of denial of service attacks and how to protect yourself from them.
Author Name: Troy Hunt
Author Description:
Troy Hunt is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP for Developer Security, an ASPInsider, and a full time Author for Pluralsight—a leader in online training for technology and creative professionals. Troy has been building software for browsers since the very early days of the web and possesses an exceptional ability to distill complex subjects into relatable explanations. This has led Troy to become an industry thought leader in the security space and produce more than twenty top-rated courses … more

Table of Contents

• Understanding Denial of Service Attacks
  38mins
• Attack Techniques
  52mins
• Tools and Services
  31mins
• Defending Against Attacks
  45mins