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> A DoS attack is any kind of attack in which the attacker seeks not to gain access to a system, but to simply deny others access. By your own definition, it w
by philipov 5y ago
> A DoS attack is any kind of attack in which the attacker seeks not to gain access to a system, but to simply deny others access.
By your own definition, it was not a DoS attack, because the subject was not seeking to deny others access. And without the intent to do harm, one may not genuinely identify the incident as an attack. Requiring intent is an important part of your definition, as it protects innocent users of a buggy system from being classified as attackers whenever any downtime incident occurs.
- simiones 5y agoSure, but that's something that needs to be investigated by a court of law, it's not something you can automatically know as a system operator. The ideal thing in this case may have been for the police to investigate, to conclude that the DoS was not done with malicious intent; but also to instruct the scraper that any further attempts to scrape the system in a this way will be considered malicious.