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The Distributed Denial of Service

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A distributed denial-of-service attack overloads a server, website, or network with traffic — multiple coordinated systems, often hijacked devices, generating congestion until service collapses.

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A toll plaza buried under ten thousand simultaneous arrivals serves no one, which was the point.

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Availability is an asset; this attack targets it by name.