DDOS

plural DDOSes

1. alternativeAlternative form of DDoS.

present singular third person DDOSes · participle present DDOSing · participle past DDOSed · past DDOSed

1. alternativeAlternative form of DDoS.

   With this approach, the noncritical traffic could be DDOSed to death, but the important stuff would still move.

   2002, James F. Dunnigan, The Next War Zone: Confronting the Global Threat of Cyberterrorism, Citadel Press, →ISBN, page 209

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   It’s as if the networked public sphere, and indeed traditional institutions of democracy, can be DDOSed via releasing large numbers of flares, each attracting and consuming attention, thus making focus and sustained conversation impossible.

   2017, Zeynep Tufekci, “Epilogue: The Uncertain Climb”, in Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 274

   Being offline would be expensive for a server owner if, say, they were DDOSed by a botnet. If you controlled a botnet and threatened to DDOS them, you could make some money.

   2018, Charles Arthur, “The internet of hacked things: Mirai”, in Cyber Wars: Hacks that Shocked the Business World, Kogan Page, →ISBN, page 186

plural DDoSes · alternative DDOS

1. Internetcomputer securityA distributed denial-of-service attack, one that originates from many different (geographically and network topographically) sources, on a network of networks such as the Internet.

   Some bots help refresh your Facebook feed or figure out how to rank Google search results; other bots impersonate humans and carry out devastating DDoS attacks.

   2017 January 31, Adrienne LaFrance, “The Internet Is Mostly Bots”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2023

present singular third person DDoSes · participle present DDoSing · participle past DDoSed · past DDoSed · participle past DDoS'd · past DDoS'd · alternative DDOS

1. Internettransitivecomputer securityTo attack by DDoS.

   On February 9, 2000, web sites such as Yahoo! and CNN were DDoSed off the Internet, mostly by spoofed smurf attacks.

   2003, Stephen Northcutt, Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to Firewalls, VPNs, Routers, and Intrusion Detection Systems, New Riders, →ISBN, page 9

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   Stuart Staniford, president of Silicon Defense in Eureka, Calif., notes, however, that if the zombie computers “had a long target list and a control mechanism to allow dynamic retargeting, [they] could have DDoSed servers used to map addresses to contact information, the ones used to distribute patches, the ones belonging to companies that analyze worms or distribute incident response information.[…]”

   2001, Scientific American, page 51

   The system got DDoSed (knocked out of commission by many distributed denial of service attacks), many lawsuits were threatened, and at one point power was even mysteriously lost to the facility, bringing the list down for days (and causing many network interruptions in the process).

   2005, Jonathan A. Zdziarski, “Historical Approaches to Fighting Spam”, in Ending Spam: Bayesian Content Filtering and the Art of Statistical Language Classification, No Starch Press, →ISBN, part I (An Introduction to Spam Filtering), page 29

   In posts on his account, Hunt gave further details on the timeline, including contacting the Internet Archive about the breach on October 6th and moving forward with the disclosure process to today, when the site was defaced and DDoS’d at the same time they were loading the data into HIBP to begin notifying affected users.

   2024 September 10, Wes Davis, “The Internet Archive is under attack, with a breach revealing info for 31 million accounts”, in The Verge

1. pluralplural of DDO