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[Glasken]

Originally Posted by Masakizt [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Excuse my ignorance but what is a DDOS attack???


Multania bringing down the server?! >.< lol

Distributed Denial of Service; flood a target system with so much traffic it either gets bogged down or crashes completely. Requires large amounts of traffic depending on the target system. It is increasingly easy to assemble the computing power required to do these things.

Edit: Distributed

[Rogean]

Originally Posted by Glasken [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Direct Denial of Service; flood a target system with so much traffic it either gets bogged down or crashes completely. Requires large amounts of traffic depending on the target system. It is increasingly easy to assemble the computing power required to do these things.

Distributed, not direct. And it usually doesn't crash anything, it just floods the internet pipe of the server so much that legitimate traffic can't get through.