To understand how a few lines of script can disrupt a multi-million dollar infrastructure, you must first understand the bottlenecks within the TCP/IP stack.

Slow down drastically while attempting to process the queue. Consume all available memory or CPU.

Unlike the high-bandwidth attacks above, Slowloris is highly targeted and stealthy. It attempts to hold open as many connections to the target web server as possible.

The while True loop ensures that as soon as a request is sent (or dropped), a new connection is immediately initiated, creating a continuous flood of traffic. The Legal and Ethical Implications

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack floods a target server, service, or network with more traffic than it can handle, rendering it unavailable to legitimate users. A Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack takes this concept further by using multiple compromised devices—often forming a botnet—to launch the attack from thousands of different IP addresses simultaneously.