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An unexpected surge in visitors to a website, which is typically because of some newsworthy event that just took place. It may also be due to the announcement of a new service or free software download.
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Harrington in an ambitious collaboration that updates and expands upon Niven's 1973 story, "Flash Crowd." The central theme involves the development of teleportation and its effects on society throughout the world, and eventually beyond it.
To circumvent detection, the attackers increasingly move away from pure bandwidth floods to stealthy DDoS attacks that masquerade as flash crowd. Flash crowd [1,2] refers to the situation when a very large number of users simultaneously access a website, which may be due to the announcement of a new service or free software download.
Heidemann, "Flash Crowd Mitigation via an Adaptive Admission Control Based on Application-Level Measurement," ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, vol.
("[B]efore you send out the instructions, visit the spot at the same time and on the same day of the week, and figure out how long it will take people to get to the mob spot," I told Minneapolis.) One blog proprietor (2) gave the concept a name--"flash mobs"--after a 1973 science-fiction short story, "Flash Crowd," which deals with the unexpected downside of cheap teleportation technology: packs of thrillseekers who beam themselves in whenever a good time is going down.
In addition to traditional load-balancing duties, AFEs typically offer such features as TCP termination, offload/multiplexing, SSL acceleration, compression and protection from malicious distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, as well as protection against the performance degradation caused by flash crowd events.
Los Rios, a district of 80,000 students, had to brace itself for the "flash crowd."
IN AN OBSCURE 1973 STORY titled "Flash Crowd," the science-fiction writer Larry Niven describes how an argument at a shopping mall, which happened to be covered by a news crew, swells into a riot.
Level 3 said that its CDN service will enable N24 to deliver top-quality and reliable online content to its viewers, even during peak traffic or massive spikes in traffic, known as flash crowds.
Website Outages Increased traffic due to "flash crowds" caused outages at a number of websites in the fourth quarter.
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