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DDoS attack

Meaning in networking & telecommunications, with examples

nounCommon term

In networking & telecommunications, DDoS attack means: An attack in which huge amounts of traffic from many compromised devices are sent to a target at the same time, so that its links or servers are overwhelmed and real users cannot get through.

In Turkish: DDoS saldırısı, dağıtık hizmet engelleme saldırısı

How it is used

DDoS stands for distributed denial of service and is said 'dee-doss'. Operators and companies detect, absorb and mitigate DDoS attacks, often with scrubbing services that clean the traffic before it reaches the customer. Attacks are described by their size in Gbps or in packets per second.

Example sentences

  1. A DDoS attack filled our internet links for 40 minutes before mitigation kicked in.

  2. The ISP offers DDoS protection that filters attack traffic inside their network.

Common collocations

  • DDoS mitigation
  • DDoS protection
  • volumetric DDoS attack
  • launch a DDoS attack
  • firewallA hardware device or software that checks network traffic against a set of rules and allows or blocks it, protecting a network from unwanted access.
  • bandwidthThe maximum amount of data a connection can carry in a given time, usually measured in megabits or gigabits per second (Mbps, Gbps).
  • ISPShort for internet service provider: a company that sells internet access to homes and businesses, usually over fibre, DSL, cable or mobile networks.
  • congestionA situation in which more traffic is trying to cross a link or device than it can handle, so packets are queued or dropped and everything slows down.

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