Impact of Flash Crowd Attack in Online Retail Applications

Abstract

-Now days the usage of internet has been enormously increased. Online shopping has acquired widely in day today event. Mean which these online shopping is affected by various advanced network security attacks Flash Crowd Attack is the one of the advanced attack, where huge amount of dummy requests are sent at a time and thus putting lot of pressure on server machine and degrade the efficiency. Also authorized client can't receive the acknowledgement notification. We found that this attack might cause lot of problems to online buy user in the coming days. This paper depicts the minimization Flash Crowd Attack and discuses various issue of this attack.