Tag: denial of service

  • DDoS – what’s that?

    DDoS – what’s that?

    I’m sure that if you’ve been watching the news recently, you’ll have heard the phrase DDoS, which stands for Distributed Denial of Service. It sounds fancy and complicated, but it’s actually pretty straightforward. Let’s start at the beginning. A website is typically nothing more than one (or several, perhaps up into hundreds for some big…