The denial of service attack is statistically the most used malicious attack out of them all. This stems from the ease of use of the attack, as well as the alarming lethality. Literally anyone can bring down a website with a simple command prompt. The question is- how do you protect against an attack that can cripple your network or website in a matter of minutes?
Ping of Death
Smurf / Smurfing
Fraggle
SYN Flood
Teardrop
Distributed Denial of Service