Now we will discuss a denial of service attack, it is also no net loss attack.
Imagine you are sitting in traffic on one lane country road with Godsmack, though as far as the eye
can see, normally this road never sees more than a single or two car at the same time.
But a country fair and a major sporting event ended around the same time.
And this road is the only way for visitors to live that down the road can't handle the massive amount
of traffic.
And as a result, it gets so bad that pretty much no one can live.
That is essentially what happened to a website during a denial of service attack, if you followed of
a certain way to more traffic than it was built to handle, you will overload the website server and
it will be impossible for the website to sort up its contain to visitors who are trying to access it.
This can happen also for innocuous reasons, of course, that if a massive news story breaks and a newspaper's
website gets overloaded with traffic from people trying to find out more.
But this kind of traffic overloaded is malicious as an attack floats of absurd with an overwhelming
amount of traffic to essentially shut down the website for all users.