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Denial of Service Attacks – CompTIA Network+ N10-005: 5.4


A denial of service attack can cause a network resource to be unavailable, and it can be difficult to protect against such attacks. In this video, you’ll learn about DoS and DDoS, and how the bad guys can use specific attacks to bring down our network resources.
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