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Distributed Denial Of Service (DDOS) is the intentional paralyzing of a computer network by flooding it with data sent simultaneously from many individual computers (so-called zombies) which are used to stage DDOS attacks

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Does the choice of protocol affect the efficiency of a DOS attack?

In principle a DDOS attack can send completely legitimate requests and thus overload the server. …
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DDoS - Impossible to stop?

There is research on the topic and in theory there seem to be ways to stop DDOS attacks. Here is a talk from Adrian Perrig about SCION, a working prototype for a new network architecture. … This should be the article about the part of the system that does DDOS mitigation. Of course they make assumptions about attacking botnets and such. …
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