What are DDoS attacks?
If Dos Attack was the school bully. The DDoS is a Mafioso Gang!!! Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks are the same thing pretty much as a Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, except more than one attack computer is used, hence the word distributed attack. In DoS attacks, the source IP that is attacking you is ‘singular’ (one). In DDoS there are many, many source IPs. Most of these “attacking” computers are usually compromised systems and the owners have usually no idea that their machines are being used for an attack. Reflective DoS Attacks are also classified as Distributed Denial of Service Attacks. Another way of saying it is that DDoS attacks are more punishing than DoS attacks as they come in from multiple sources, hundreds if not thousands of sources. Hackers and exploiters, today use both simplistic and complex mechanism of hijacking computers with spyware, adware, malicious applications, so that they essentially control the computer that is compromised. Such computers are
