Betekenis van DDoS In het Nederlands

• 0 abbreviation for distributed denial of service: an occasion when a computer network or website is intentionally prevented from working correctly, by a very large number of users sending data at the same time:

  • A DDoS is a cyber-attack where the perpetrator uses several, often thousands of, unique IP addresses.

  • Several Internet giants were crippled by DDoS attacks in February last year.

• 1 to intentionally prevent a computer network or website from working correctly by sending data from a very large number of users at the same time:

  • In the simulation, the attackers DDoSed telecommunications networks and brought down electrical grids.