DDoS Eng

Overview

Written by Andris Männik

DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) is an attack in which the goal is to flood a system with requests from a network of computers so that the system buckles under the weight of the bandwith, so that the system cannot process legitimate requests and if the attack is coming from a wide area it is incredibly difficult to filter legitimate and illegitimate traffic. DDoS'ing is most commonly done in botnets, zombie computers infected with malicious software to accept commands from the attacker's own computer, to start and stop flooding a service with requests whenever the attacker chooses.

As technology advances discovering and remedying DDoS attacks will be much more difficult.

DDoS is a more sophisticated version of DoS.

The difference comes from that in DDoS'ing, the requests are coming from a plethora of computers from many different networks, where as DoS'ing is when the requests are coming from a single computer from a single network.