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Denial-of-Service and Distributed Denial-of-Service (DoS/DDoS) DoS/DDoS

A DoS attack overwhelms a service or system with traffic from a single source in order to make it unavailable to legitimate users. DDoS has the same goal, but the attack comes simultaneously from many distributed sources (usually a botnet), which makes it far harder to block.

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