D DOS attack

D DOS Attack What is D DOS Attack? A DDOS (distributed denial-of-service attack) is an attempt at rendering a server unreachable to its visitors. During a DDOS attack your website may become unreachable since the server is being flooded with bogus requests and cannot process the valid ones. Think of this example: Imagine someone prank calling your phone. It’s like a 500 people prank calling your phone and tying up the phone lines. Then someone that wants to talk to you tries to call. They might get a busy signal or not get through at all. The phone company may have trouble distinguishing between the “real” phone calls and the “prank” phone calls. The objective of the prank phone calls is to simply tie up the phone lines so no one else can get through to you. Now, Think of the web server as the phone company that’s handling your phone calls and the DDOS attack is all the prank callers. The legitimate calle...