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Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)<\/strong> attacks aim to make a server, a service or an infrastructure unavailable. The attack can take various forms: it can be, among others, a saturation of the bandwidth <\/strong>of the server to make it unreachable, or a depletion of the system resources of the machine to prevent it from responding to legitimate traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During such an attack, a multitude of requests are sent simultaneously from multiple sources on the Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hackers have specialized in creating armies of “zombies”, which they can then rent to other people or malicious groups to attack a particular target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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