Month: October 2019

A denial-of-service attack overwhelms a system’s resources so that it cannot respond to service requests. A DDoS attack is also an attack on system’s resources, but it is launched from a large number of other host machines that are infected by malicious software controlled by the attacker.

Unlike attacks that are designed to enable the attacker to gain or increase access, denial-of-service doesn’t provide direct benefits for attackers. For some of them, it’s enough to have the satisfaction of service denial. However, if the attacked resource belongs to a business competitor, then the benefit to the attacker may be real enough. Another purpose of a DoS attack can be to take a system offline so that a different kind of attack can be launched. One common example is session hijacking, which I’ll describe later.

There are different types of DoS and DDoS attacks; the most common are TCP SYN flood attack, teardrop attack, smurf attack, ping-of-death attack and botnets.

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Data reader is an easy way to read data from stream data of database through ADO.NET in C#.

What is LINQ?

LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is uniform query syntax in C# and VB.NET to retrieve data from different sources and formats. It is integrated in C# or VB, thereby eliminating the mismatch between programming languages and databases, as well as providing a single querying interface for different types of data sources.

For example, SQL is a Structured Query Language used to save and retrieve data from a database. In the same way, LINQ is a structured query syntax built in C# and VB.NET to retrieve data from different types of data sources such as collections, ADO.Net DataSet, XML Docs, web service and MS SQL Server and other databases.

Advantages of LINQ

• Familiar language: Developers don’t have to learn a new query language for each type of data source or data format.
• Less coding: It reduces the amount of code to be written as compared with a more traditional approach.
• Readable code: LINQ makes the code more readable so other developers can easily understand and maintain it.
• Standardized way of querying multiple data sources: The same LINQ syntax can be used to query multiple data sources.
• Compile time safety of queries: It provides type checking of objects at compile time.
• IntelliSense Support: LINQ provides IntelliSense for generic collections.
• Shaping data: You can retrieve data in different shapes.

Process:

A process is a program in execution. A process is more than the program code, which is sometimes known as the text section. It also includes the current activity, as represented by the value of the program counter and the contents of the processor’s registers. A process generally also includes the process stack, which contains temporary data (such as function parameters, return addresses, and local variables), and a data section, which contains global variables. A process may also include a heap, which is memory that is dynamically allocated during process run time. The structure of a process in memory is shown in Figure 3.1

Process State:

As a process executes, it changes state. The state of a process is defined in part by the current activity of that process. A process may be in one of the following states:

• New: The process is being created.

• Running: Instructions are being executed.

• Waiting: The process is waiting for some event to occur (such as an I/O completion or reception of a signal).

• Ready: The process is waiting to be assigned to a processor.

• Terminated:The process has finished execution.

These names are arbitrary, and they vary across operating systems. The states that they represent are found on all systems, however. Certain operating systems also more finely delineate process states. It is important to realize that only one process can be running on any processor at any instant. Many processes may be ready and waiting, however.

Ref: Operating system concepts by silberschats , 9ED