Plan DOS and DDOS Attacks

The video tutorial explains Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, highlighting their simplicity and categorizing them into three types: volume-based, protocol-based, and application layer attacks. It provides examples of each type and demonstrates how to perform a DoS attack using the Ettercap application, emphasizing the difference between DoS and DDoS attacks.

Explain how an application layer attack is executed according to the text.

What distinguishes a DoS attack from a DDoS attack?