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| What mean ''DDOS attack''? |
| When more thousand of people attack server with bad flood |
A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted efforts of a person or people to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers such as banks, credit card payment gateways, and even root nameservers. The term is generally used with regards to computer networks, but is not limited to this field; for example, it is also used in reference to CPU resource management.[1]
One common method of attack involves saturating the target machine with external communications requests, such that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic, or responds so slowly as to be rendered effectively unavailable. In general terms, DoS attacks are implemented by either forcing the targeted computer(s) to reset, or consuming its resources so that it can no longer provide its intended service or obstructing the communication media between the intended users and the victim so that they can no longer communicate adequately.
Denial-of-service attacks are considered violations of the IAB's Internet proper use policy, and also violate the acceptable use policies of virtually all Internet service providers. They also commonly constitute violations of the laws of individual nations. |
What mean ''DDOS attack''?
The reason why u brought this question up is because there seems to be a similar problem occuring in .ru? |
better to ask a stupid question than to give a stupid answer!
Briefly and in simplicity terms ''DOS attack'' is when a bunch of hackers activate their computers and try to overload the server by making a lot of applications and basically lag the website!
A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) |
| http://en.lmgtfy.com/?q=DDOS+attack |
http://en.lmgtfy.com/?q=DDOS+attack
Damn.. Thats a nice link :) |
| and i thought that it was an event goin on at .ru :p |
for shawnanston:
It could still very well be. The admins like to be vague and roleplay a lot. |
