What is a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack?
A Distributed Denial of Service consists of launching a Denial of Service attack from a good number of sites against a single host. Such an attack is generally more effective to bring down huge corporate sites than DoS attacks. A typical DDoS attack consists of master, slave and victim – master being the attacker, slave being the compromised systems and victim of course being the attacker’s target. Once the attacker sends out a specific command to the slave or zombie systems, the attack is launched.
