DDoS značenje | engleski leksikon

Stands for distributed denial of service, a type of denial of service (DoS) attack that leverages the power of multiple intermediary hosts.
Acronym for distributed denial of service attack. A form of denial of service attack (DoS) originating from several computers that seeks to disrupt Web access by overwhelming a target with connection requests that cannot be completed. A DDoS attack involves cracking into a number of computers and planting programs that lie dormant until sent a signal to attack. At that point the computers send a steady stream of data packets to the targeted Web site, overwhelming the ability of the Web server to respond. Because the attack is coming from many computers, security features that might otherwise recognize the attack and stop accepting data packets from a single source are unable to shut down connections to all the attackers. See also DoS, packet, zombie.