Editing Denial-of-service attack (section)

===Degradation-of-service attacks===
Pulsing zombies are compromised computers that are directed to launch intermittent and short-lived floodings of victim websites with the intent of merely slowing it rather than crashing it. This type of attack, referred to as ''degradation-of-service'', can be more difficult to detect and can disrupt and hamper connection to websites for prolonged periods of time, potentially causing more overall disruption than a denial-of-service attack.<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopaedia Of Information Technology |page=397 |publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributors |year=2007 |isbn=978-81-269-0752-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Internet and the Law |year=2006 |page=325 |first=Aaron |last=Schwabach |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-731-9}}</ref> Exposure of degradation-of-service attacks is complicated further by the matter of discerning whether the server is really being attacked or is experiencing higher than normal legitimate traffic loads.<ref>{{cite book|title=Networking and Mobile Computing |first=Xicheng |last=Lu |author2=Wei Zhao |publisher=Birkhäuser |year=2005 |isbn=978-3-540-28102-3 |page=424}}</ref>