How to Prevent Denial of Service Attacks  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?  Types of Denial of Service
Attacks  If you are going to protect against an attack, you
first have to know how it works. You must familiarize yourself
with the different variations, methods, and plans of attacks
that hackers use. Surprisingly, there are at least seven
different classifications of denial of service attacks known
today.  Ping Flood  The most basic of attacks is the ping flood
attack. It relies on the ICMP echo command, more popularly known
as ping . In legitimate situations the ping command is used by
network administrators to test connectivity between two
computers. In the ping flood attack,