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Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are a favorite method for attackers to disrupt or debilitate firewalls, online services, and websites by overwhelming systems with malicious traffic or transaction requests. DDoS attackers accomplish this by coordinating an army of compromised machines, or ‘bots’, into a network of devices they control from a remote location that focus a stream of activity toward a single target. These botnets may be used to perpetrate DDoS with a range of malicious techniques including:
Saturating bandwidth with massive volumes of traffic,
Filling up system resources with half-open connection requests
Crashing web application servers with voluminous requests for random information
What is DDoS mitigation?
DDoS mitigation is the practice of blocking and absorbing malicious spikes in network traffic and application usage caused by DDoS attacks, while allowing legitimate traffic to flow unimpeded.
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September 17, 2020 at 09:10PM
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