Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS)

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) is a large-scale DoS attack where the perpetrator uses more than one unique IP address or machines previously compromised.

• wikipedia:2016 Dyn cyberattack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Denial-of-service_attacks

Related terms

• Cloudflare
• AWS Shield (Dec 2016)
• iptables
• DDoS protection at the DNS level

See also

• DDoS, AWS Shield, Incapsula, Cloudflare, Magic Transit, Adaptive DDoS, DDoS attacks on Dyn, Mirai, Botnet
• DMZ, Port knocking, Bastion host, Firewall Software: iptables ufw firewalld nftables firewall-cmd ipfw (FreeBSD) PF (OpenBSD), netsh advfirewall, PAN-OS, WAF, pfsense, VyOS, Cisco ASA, DMZ, F5, URL Filtering, port forwarding, macOS application firewall, Windows firewall, Fortigate, ngrok, Network ACL
• IT Security Attacks, DoS, DDoS, Fork bomb

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