Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)

a cyber attack on a specific service or network

Botnet

an army of infected computers to do a DDoS attack

DoS attack

an attack from one source

How do attackers get other computers to get involved in a DDoS attack?

by using malicious software and distributing it over the internet

What is the intended purpose of a DDoS attack?

disrupting normal operations

How does a DDoS attack work?

floods the target with a constant flood of traffic