A means of burdening or effectively shutting down a remote system by bombarding it with traffic from many other computers. ... www.f-secure.com/security_center/malware_code_glossary.html A type of denial of service attack in which an attacker uses malicious code installed on various computers to attack a single target. An attacker ...

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks aim to disrupt the service of information systems by overwhelming the processing capacity of systems or by flooding the network bandwidth of the targeted business. Recently, these attacks have been used to deny service to commercial web sites that rely on a constant Internet ...