DDoS
A distributed denial-of-service attack, one that originates from many different (geographically and network topographically) sources, on a network of networks such as the Internet.
Noun
- A distributed denial-of-service attack, one that originates from many different (geographically and network topographically) sources, on a network of networks such as the Internet.
- Some bots help refresh your Facebook feed or figure out how to rank Google search results; other bots impersonate humans and carry out devastating DDoS attacks. - 2017 January 31, Adrienne LaFrance, “The Internet Is...
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Verb
- To attack by DDoS.
- Stuart Staniford, president of Silicon Defense in Eureka, Calif., notes, however, that if the zombie computers “had a long target list and a control mechanism to allow dynamic retargeting, [they] could have DDoSed...
- On February 9, 2000, web sites such as Yahoo! and CNN were DDoSed off the Internet, mostly by spoofed smurf attacks. - 2003, Stephen Northcutt, Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to Firewalls, VPNs,...
- The system got DDoSed (knocked out of commission by many distributed denial of service attacks), many lawsuits were threatened, and at one point power was even mysteriously lost to the facility, bringing the list down...