Ddos

//ˈdiːˌdɒs// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of DDoS. alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    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. 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."

  3. 3
    plural of DDO form-of, plural
Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of DDoS. alt-of, alternative

    "With this approach, the noncritical traffic could be DDOSed to death, but the important stuff would still move."

  2. 2
    To attack by DDoS. Internet, transitive

    "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 servers used to map addresses to contact information, the ones used to distribute patches, the ones belonging to companies that analyze worms or distribute incident response information.[…]”"

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dollard-des-ormeaux

Example

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"South Korea's communications commission (KCC) says a distributed denial of services (DDoS) attack, a common way to overload computer servers making websites unreachable, was not the reason computers at broadcasters and banks became paralyzed."

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