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What is the definition of DDoS?

Imagine a mob of shoppers on Black Friday trying to enter a store through a revolving door, but a group of hooligans block the shoppers by going round and round the door like a carousel. There’s lots of pushing and shoving and griping, and the legitimate shoppers can’t get in to buy anything. Business comes to a standstill. Know more:  an attacker sets up 100 drone This is DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service , which is a malicious network attack that involves hackers forcing numerous Internet-connected devices to send network communication requests to one specific service or website with the intention of overwhelming it with false traffic or requests. This has the effect of tying up all available resources to deal with these requests, and crashing the web server or distracting it enough that normal users cannot create a connection between their systems and the server. To pull off a DDoS attack, hackers need an army of zombie computers to do their bidding. Hackers use what...