DDoS — or distributed denial of service in full — is a cyber attack that aims to bring websites and web-based services down by bombarding them with so much traffic that their services and infrastructure are unable to handle it all.
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They say that pent-up demand for insurance in the federal marketplace, combined with a surge of interest among people merely curious about whether it is working, could bring the website to a crawl.
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Moore pieces together everything from Keller Zabel's collapse to the economic bailout of Bretton's company and gives the information to Winnie, telling her that revealing it will bring her website publicity and credibility.
Danny McPherson, chief research officer at Arbor Networks, claimed 500 denial-of-service attacks had been observed on the Scientology site in the week prior to February 4, some of which were strong enough to bring the website down.
Jack Chappell was 15 when he started work as an administrator for an underground service that helped other computer hackers to bring down websites by flooding them with traffic.
They run the risk of mistaking the high volumes of web traffic as demand for their products, rather than what could just as easily be an orchestrated attack designed to bring down websites.
The malware could also be used to bring down websites and send out "ransom notes" to extort cash after telling a user they had lost control of their computer, he added.
The scariest elements of this episode are these: First, the weapons allowing cyberattackers to bring down websites and networks no longer belong exclusively to "state actors" such as governments, but are widely available in private hands.
