What is a DDoS Attack?
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A DDoS is the internet equivalent of organizing a flash mob, but with the goal of being disruptive. Tons of people show up, ask for web pages, but aren’t really doing anything productive. The goal is the consume the bandwidth, CPU, or other resources of a web site to effectively knock it offline by overwhelming it with sheer numbers of users. Except the users are obviously bots.
There are variants where you don’t even fake being a normal user, and just send unwanted traffic to the web site hoping bandwidth alone can be starved. What matters is the quantity of users/bots, hoping to use their numbers to overcome the fact that most internet services have huge capacities.
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