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Volume Based Attacks –The attacker’s try to saturate the bandwidth of the targets flooding it with a huge quantity of data, the the category includes ICMP floods, UDP floods and other spoofed-packet floods. This type of attack is very common and very simple to realize thanks to the huge quantity of tools available for free on the Internet, the technique is very popular in the hacktivist underground. Volume Based Attacks magnitude is measured in bits per second (Bps)
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