What Is a Distributed Denial of Service Attack?
With a traditional Denial of Service attack, a single machine is usually launching the attack against a victim’s box. However, in the year 2000, a new type of attack was introduced—a distributed Denial of Service attack or DDOS. In this case, an attacker breaks into several machines, or coordinates with several friends, to launch an attack against a target machine or network at the same time. So, now it is not just one machine launching the attack, but several. This makes it difficult to defend against the attacks because the machine is not just receiving a lot of packets from one machine, but from any number of machines all at the same time. Also, because these attacks are coming from a wide range ...
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