Ddos Glossary

Browse 5 ddos terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

5 Ddos Terms

Amplification Attack
A denial-of-service technique that sends small spoofed requests to services which reply with much larger responses toward the victim, multiplying attack...
Anti-DDoS
Designed to prevent, absorb, or mitigate distributed denial-of-service attacks. Anti-DDoS systems typically combine traffic filtering, rate controls,...
Botnet
Botnet is a network of compromised computers (called bots or zombies) that are remotely controlled by an attacker, known as a bot herder, typically through a...
Deflection
The rerouting of malicious or unwanted traffic away from a protected service toward a scrubbing center, sinkhole, or other mitigation path. Deflection is...
Distributed Denial of Service
An attack that overwhelms a target's network, service, or application using traffic or requests generated from many distributed systems at once. The...

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