What is the difference between DoS and Brute Force attacks? [closed]

Question

I was reading about DoS attacks on Apache servers but the "Brute Force" word pops up sometimes I know DoS attacks but "Brute Force" seems to be similar, is there a difference or it is just another word of DoS?

Answer 1

Brute force attacks use a technique of attempting to try every combination of passwords/keys to gain access to a particular system. What the hacker does when they gain entry to the system depends on the motivation of the hacker.

DoS (Denial of Service) attacks describe cases where the motivation of the hacker is to bring down the system, causing maximum inconvenience to the users of the system.

They can't really be compared against each other, as brute force is a technique to gain entry, and DoS is a type of attack. It is possible that an attack could be both brute force and DoS.

Answer 2

DoS or Denial of Service is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. it generally consists of the concerted, malevolent efforts of a person or persons to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely

A brute force attack is a method of defeating a cryptographic scheme by systematically trying a large number of possibilities. For example trying a large number of the possible keys in a key space in order to decrypt a message.