[clyde260]

Ummm, what’s DOS?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Denial Of Service attacks by hackers.

Google it.

Bing it.

Do a search for it on your favorite search engine.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Ummm, what’s DOS?

"Denial of Service" attack--an organized attack on a particular site often by millions of infected computers instructed to try and access the site at a particular time...more or less.

[PJBankard]

Denial Of Service

[cynwoody]

Ummm, what’s DOS?

DOS stands for denial of service attack. In which the goal is not to break into the target server, but to overload it with useless requests, so that it crashes, or its legitimate users are unable to get through.

Example: Perturbed by FR's existence, a moonbat rents a botnet, consisting of thousands or millions of malware-compromised computers scattered around the world, and orders the compromised computers to flood FR with junk requests. Using a botnet to commit DOS is known as DDOS, for distributed denial of service. The bogus requests come from a wide range of IP addresses, not just one or a few, and thus are harder to reject based on IP alone.

More about botnets:

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2015/02/25/nine-bad-botnets-damage/

https://www.secplicity.org/2017/03/07/know-much-costs-rent-iot-botnet/ (IOT stands for internet of things, i.e., the botnet members are not PCs, but rather embedded computers, such as internet-connected thermostats or web cams.)

[Paladin2]

Gate$ greatest ripoff ever?

[ETL]

All you’ll ever want to know about it and lots more here:

DOS - Denial-of-service attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

[Hawthorn]

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