ddos
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3ADJ.
devastating, threatened
VERB + DDOS
carry
PREP.
out
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noun
Alternative form of DDoS.
verb
Alternative form of DDoS.
With this approach, the noncritical traffic could be DDOSed to death, but the important stuff would still move.
It’s as if the networked public sphere, and indeed traditional institutions of democracy, can be DDOSed via releasing large numbers of flares, each attracting and consuming attention, thus making focus and sustained conversation impossible.
noun
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.
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.
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6With this approach, the noncritical traffic could be DDOSed to death, but the important stuff would still move.
WiktionaryIt’s as if the networked public sphere, and indeed traditional institutions of democracy, can be DDOSed via releasing large numbers of flares, each attracting and consuming attention, thus making focu
WiktionaryBeing offline would be expensive for a server owner if, say, they were DDOSed by a botnet. If you controlled a botnet and threatened to DDOS them, you could make some money.
WiktionarySome 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.
WiktionaryStuart 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] coul
WiktionaryOn February 9, 2000, web sites such as Yahoo! and CNN were DDoSed off the Internet, mostly by spoofed smurf attacks.
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