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DDoS

[ dee-daws, ‐-dos; dee-dee-oh-es ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to or being an incident in which a network of computers floods an online resource with high levels of unwanted traffic so that it is inaccessible to legitimate service requests:

    a DDoS attack.

DDoS

abbreviation for

  1. distributed denial of service: a method of attacking a computer system by flooding it with so many messages that it is obliged to shut down

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Word History and Origins

Origin of DDoS1

1995–2000; D(istributed) D(enial) o(f) S(ervice)

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