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Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Historically, distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were almost minor nuisances ...

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DDoS attacks continue to be an ever-growing threat, and recent quarterly statistics have demonstrated a shocking increase in these attacks. Alarmingly, it is known that only a small number of such ...

I am sure all of you know its meaning. For those new to the term, it is “distributed” Denial of Service – caused by the way too many requests to the server than it can handle. When unable to process ...