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There are a variety of different forms of attack to which a network or computer system may be exposed each of which will be covered in this chapter.

Denial of Service (DoS) are undertaken with the express purpose of preventing users from accessing and using a service they should otherwise be able to access. Such attacks make malicious use of a variety of different standard protocols and tools. There is no single DoS attack method, and the term has come to encompass a variety of different forms of attack, a number of which are outlined below:

* '''Boink''' - Similar to the ''Bonk'' attack except that the corrupted UDP packets are sent to multiple ports, not just port 53 (DNS).