DDoS
acronymsecuritynetworking
Stands for: Distributed Denial of Service
An attack that overwhelms a service with traffic from many sources at once.
A Distributed Denial of Service floods a target from a botnet of many machines, making it hard to block by simply filtering one address. It aims at availability, taking you offline, rather than stealing data, and mitigation relies on absorbing or scrubbing the flood.
Also known as: ddos, dos, denial of service, volumetric attack