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...
Related Topics
- Mitigation (2 terms in common)
- Availability (1 terms in common)
- Botnets (1 terms in common)
- Malware (1 terms in common)
- Traffic Management (1 terms in common)
- Networking (1 terms in common)
- Network Defense (1 terms in common)
- Reflection (1 terms in common)
- Command And Control (1 terms in common)