What is DDoS-attack? | IT Insight

In the continuation of the “IT INSIGHT” today we will tell you about such a term as “DDoS attack”. The abbreviation DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service. It means that the server receives too many requests from different computers. It can not withstand a large flow of “visitors” at the same time and turns off. And of course, the target of the attack becomes inaccessible to real users. Imagine: one of the most significant long-awaited matches is planned at the central stadium of your city. Thousands of people are trying to get from different parts of the city to the stadium on the same road at the same time. Accordingly, this leads to the accumulation of a large number of vehicles on the way to the stadium, that is, traffic jams are formed. The speed of movement slows down, creating a traffic collapse. In this case, the stadium acts as a site to which a large number of requests are sent in the form of transport, and the road to the stadium is a communication channel through which all requests are se