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denial of service attack

An assault on a network that floods it with so many additional requests that regular traffic is either slowed or completely interrupted. Unlike a virus or worm, which can cause severe damage to databases, a denial of service attack interrupts network service for some period. A distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack uses multiple computers throughout the network that it has previously infected. The computers act as "zombies" and work together to send out bogus messages, thereby increasing the amount of phony traffic. See smurf attack, SYN flood attack, land attack, teardrop attack and Ping of Death.

Hackers Caused a Denial of Service

Computers with high-speed connections to the Internet were hacked and planted with illicit programs that, when activated, sent out an unending number of requests and caused a denial of service at Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon.com and other Web sites during the second week of February 2000. (Article headline courtesy of the Philadelphia Inquirer.)

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No references found	Both DoS and DDoS are a huge threat to the operation of Internet sites, but the DDoS [2,3] problem is more complex and harder to solve. Research on the active DDoS filtering algorithm based on IP flow by Guo, Rui; Yin, Hao; Wang, Dongqi; Zhang, Bencheng / International Journal of Communications, Network and Systems Sciences (IJCNS) com (Staff) Although last week's distributed denial-of-service attack on garnered lots of headlines, analysts at Arbor Networks say that the attack was a relatively small operation that paled in comparison to big DDoS attacks that occur every day. Twitter attack relatively small potatoes by Network World Middle East A pro-Georgian blogger has been identified as the target of the DDoS attacks believed to be an attempt to silence his online criticism of Moscow s role in last year s Georgia-Russia war. Twitter under attack again by Times of Oman (Muscat, Oman)	DCS DCT DCTL dcwv DD DD2 DDA DDA value DDB DDBMS DDBS DDCMP DDD DDE DDE Manager ddI DDIF DDL DDM DDML DDN DDN NIC DDNS DDNS relay DDO DDOS DDP DDR DDR-RAM DDR-SDRAM DDRAM DDS DDT DDTA DDVP DDWG DE De Aar De Amicis, Edmondo De Baca County De Bakey, Michael Ellis De Bary, Heinrich Anton De Bary, William Theodore De Beers S.A. de Beurmann-Gougerot disease de Blois, Natalie De Bow, James Dunwoody Brownson de Broglie de Broglie equation de Broglie relation de Broglie wave	DDNT Ddntp DDNV DDO DDO DDOA Ddoc DDOD DDOE DDOEF DDOF DDOGC DDOGS DDOH DDOI DDOIM DDOJJ DDOJSIOC DDOL DDON DDOO DDOP DDOPA DDoPS DDOR DDOS DDoS attack DDOT DDOV DDOZ DDP DDP DDP DDP DDP DDP (disambiguation) DDP (disambiguation) DDP1 DDPA DDPA&E DDPAC DDPAT DDPATH DDPB DDPC DDPCA DDPCO ddPCR DDPCT DDPD DDPDA DDPE DDPEC DDPF DDPFM

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Both DoS and DDoS are a huge threat to the operation of Internet sites, but the DDoS [2,3] problem is more complex and harder to solve.

Research on the active DDoS filtering algorithm based on IP flow by Guo, Rui; Yin, Hao; Wang, Dongqi; Zhang, Bencheng / International Journal of Communications, Network and Systems Sciences (IJCNS)

com (Staff) Although last week's distributed denial-of-service attack on garnered lots of headlines, analysts at Arbor Networks say that the attack was a relatively small operation that paled in comparison to big DDoS attacks that occur every day.

Twitter attack relatively small potatoes by Network World Middle East

A pro-Georgian blogger has been identified as the target of the DDoS attacks believed to be an attempt to silence his online criticism of Moscow s role in last year s Georgia-Russia war.

Twitter under attack again by Times of Oman (Muscat, Oman)

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