DDoS

See also: DDOS, DDOs, and ddos

English

Noun

DDoS (plural DDoSes)

(Internet, computer security) Alternative spelling of DDOS

Verb

DDoS (third-person singular simple present DDoSes, present participle DDoSing, simple past and past participle DDoSed or DDoS'd)

(Internet, computer security, transitive) Alternative spelling of DDOS
- 2001, Scientific American, page 51:
  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. […]”
- 2003, Stephen Northcutt, Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to Firewalls, VPNs, Routers, and Intrusion Detection Systems, New Riders, →ISBN, page 9:
  On February 9, 2000, web sites such as Yahoo! and CNN were DDoSed off the Internet, mostly by spoofed smurf attacks.
- 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:
  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).
- 2024 October 9, Wes Davis, “The Internet Archive is under attack, with a breach revealing info for 31 million accounts”, in The Verge‎^[1]:
  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.

Anagrams

dods, odds, OSDD, ODDs, Dods