DDoS

DDOS DDOs ddos English Alternative forms en DDOS Pronunciation en /ˈdiːˌdɒs/ Noun es en Internet computer security A distributed denial-of-service attack, one that originates from many different (geographically and network topographically) sources, on a network of networks such as the Internet. en https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/bots-bots-bots/515043/ The Internet Is Mostly Bots 2017-01-31 2021-09-01 Adrienne LaFrance w:The Atlantic Some bots help refresh your Facebook feed or figure out how to rank Google search results; other bots impersonate humans and carry out devastating DDoS attacks. https://web.archive.org/web/20260805042535/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/bots-bots-bots/515043/ 5 August 2026 Verb ~es + +,~'d en Internet computer security transitive To attack by DDoS. en w:Scientific American 2001 51 Stuart Staniford, president of Silicon Defense in Eureka, Calif., notes, however, that if the zombie computers “had a long target list and a control mechanism to allow dynamic retargeting, [they] could have DDoSed servers used to map addresses to contact information, the ones used to distribute patches, the ones belonging to companies that analyze worms or distribute incident response information.” en Stephen Northcutt Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to Firewalls, VPNs, Routers, and Intrusion Detection Systems New Riders 2003 9 0-7357-1232-8 On February 9, 2000, web sites such as Yahoo! and CNN were DDoSed off the Internet, mostly by spoofed smurf attacks. en Jonathan A. Zdziarski Historical Approaches to Fighting Spam Ending Spam: Bayesian Content Filtering and the Art of Statistical Language Classification w:No Starch Press 2005 part I (An Introduction to Spam Filtering) 29 1-59327-052-6 The system got DDoSed (knocked out of commission by many distributed denial of service attacks), many lawsuits were threatened, and at one point power was even mysteriously lost to the facility, bringing the list down for days (and causing many network interruptions in the process). en Wes Davis The Internet Archive is under attack, with a breach revealing info for 31 million accounts w:The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive-ddos-attack-pop-up-message 09-10-2024 In posts on his account, Hunt gave further details on the timeline, including contacting the Internet Archive about the breach on October 6th and moving forward with the disclosure process to today, when the site was defaced and DDoS’d at the same time they were loading the data into HIBP to begin notifying affected users. https://web.archive.org/web/20260909070916/https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive-ddos-attack-pop-up-message 9 September 2026 Further reading Denial-of-service attack Distributed DoS Anagrams en ddos dods odds OSDD ODDs Dods