I thought others are interested, hence posting this. I got following answer.
DoS: Attacks which makes service unavailable for genuine users. Attacks resulting to 100% CPU utilization, Memory Leaks, hangs etc.. Exploit : Attacks that crash the application/service which enables attacker to gain access to application/service/machine. Courtesy: http://wiki.intoto.com/intoto_wiki/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=102&topics_threshold=0&topics_offset=0&topics_sort_mode=lastPost_desc&topics_find=&forumId=21 Thanks Ravi On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Ravi Chunduru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see that many IPS products (including IntruPro-IPS and Snort) > categorize rules in different families. I don't have any confusion on > many of the families, except for DoS and Exploits. I am not able to > understand the difference between DoS and Exploit families. Can > anybody shed light on this? > > Thanks > Ravi > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Test Your IDS Is your IDS deployed correctly? Find out quickly and easily by testing it with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. Go to http://www.coresecurity.com/index.php5?module=Form&action=impact&campaign=intro_sfw to learn more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
