DOS Attacks are know as Denial of service attacks which are know for their crippling of another computer system. They are attacks made by people sending information to another computer system attempting to crash the other computer. The attacks are done with super fast computers on super fast Internet connections. On Monday February 6, 2000 one of the largest Internet site, Yahoo.com, was crippled with a DOS attack by a large number of computers(Dube, “Web …showed first 75 words of 738 total…

…showed last 75 words of 738 total…the major attacks just a month before(Dube, “Coolio’ arrested”, par. 10-11). No further arrests have been made for the attacks on the dates of February sixth through the eighth. These large attacks cause many people to wonder about the security of the Internet. With the growing change towards E-Business and the increase in technology the frequency of these attacks can only increase in numbers, some possible causing physical damage to either computers or people.