WEB BROWSERS TECHNOLOGY
THE INTERNET
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An attempt by a government to deny Internet access to its citizens
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An attempt to deny access to a website by flooding the website’s servers with millions of requests from different computers
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An attempt by one user to deny service to another user by posting malicious material on a social network
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An attempt by an Internet user to access private information stored in a private database
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Detailed explanation-1: -A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a non-intrusive internet attack made to take down the targeted website or slow it down by flooding the network, server or application with fake traffic.
Detailed explanation-2: -Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are a subclass of denial of service (DoS) attacks. A DDoS attack involves multiple connected online devices, collectively known as a botnet, which are used to overwhelm a target website with fake traffic.
Detailed explanation-3: -A DoS attack is a denial of service attack where a computer is used to flood a server with TCP and UDP packets. A DDoS attack is where multiple systems target a single system with a DoS attack. The targeted network is then bombarded with packets from multiple locations. All DDoS = DoS but not all DoS = DDoS.
Detailed explanation-4: -Definition: Denial-Of-Service (DoS) is an attack targeted at depriving legitimate users from online services. It is done by flooding the network or server with useless and invalid authentication requests which eventually brings the whole network down, resulting in no connectivity.