The phrase "attack distributed" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a type of cyber attack that is distributed in nature, but as it stands, it is ambiguous and requires additional context to be understood.
Example: "The cybersecurity team is currently investigating the recent attack distributed across multiple servers."
Alternatives: "distributed attack" or "attack spread out".
Computers all over the world started sending packets of information to the PayPal and Visa websites, flooding its servers with a DDoS attack (distributed denial of service).
If the CSP fails to provide the proper services according to the SLA, it may attempt to launch different kinds of attacks such as a forge attack, replay attack, distributed denial-of-service attack, etc.
Modern era has seen diverse nature of attacks possible on the Internet, including the most perilous attack, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
Had Bruce Ivins, the U.S. government microbiologist responsible for the 2001 anthrax attacks, distributed his deadly agent with sprayers he could have purchased off the shelf, tens of thousands of Americans would have died.
There are 201 instances of about 56 types of attacks distributed throughout forth and fifth weeks data.
For instance, snooping attacks, wormhole attacks, black hole attacks [9], routing table overflow and poisoning attacks, packet replication, denial of service (DoS) attacks, distributed DoS (DDoS) attacks, et cetera [10].
These DDoS attacks (distributed denial-of-service attacks) have become more powerful as of late, thanks to the way attackers are exploiting older internet protocols like Network Time Protocol, or NTP, to increase their size.
A number of technology companies, including Meetup, Basecamp, Vimeo, Bit.ly and others, have undergone website-crashing DDoS attacks (distributed denial-of-service) in recent months, but SAY Media-owned blogging platform Typepad, apparently, has the dubious honor of being taken down for an extended outage more than once in just a few weeks.
Augustus also banned anonymous writing in a bid to control incendiary attacks distributed via pamphlets and used legal means to command the burning of incriminatory writings (with some condemned authors issued with 'literary death-sentences' for their entire life's work).
LSU professor David Dismukes is also featured in our report for his role in producing an economic study attacking distributed solar energy.
In this paper, we study the capacity of a crowdsourcing system to cope with errors, lone-wolf attacks, and distributed attacks.
