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

See also

• 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
• IT Security Attacks