The technique used here is known as ‘Fork Bomb’. A fork bomb is the equivalent of a D.O.S. attack on your own system. It aims at depriving the system off it’s Random Access Memory, leaving none for vital functions required to keep the system running, hence crashing it. Just 5 characters long, the fork bomb […]
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Easy Ways to Prevent A DDoS Attack
Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers such as banks, credit card payment gateways, and even root nameservers. DoS threats are also common in business, and are sometimes responsible for website attacks. This technique has now seen extensive use in certain games, used by server owners, or disgruntled […]