What is DDoS attack

in #tech5 years ago

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You might laugh but I didn’t know what a Ddos attack is and briefly read about it. I’m sharing this so that non techies like me would understand.

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) occurs when multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system ( one or more servers). The DDoS attack will attempt to make a website unavailable by flooding it with unwanted traffic from multiple computers so much that its network ceases to work taking the site offline.

Usually the attack lasts for less than 24hrs.

This should not affect the blockchain as the attack targets the website from my understanding.

Please feel free to correct.

Have a great day.

Info src: techworld.com

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Even i didn't know about prior to today. Hope it gets over soon and can access steemit website.

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