April 12, 2024, 3:01 a.m. | Bharat Ambati

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Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

Phishing attacks are fraudulent attempts to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details. Similarly, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are designed to disrupt the normal traffic of a network, service, or server by overwhelming it with a flood of traffic. These attacks use a barrage of requests to exhaust the resources of the target system, making it unavailable to legitimate users.

Essentially, it floods the internet traffic.

The efficacy of …

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