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DDoS

Distributed Denial of Service. An attack that overwhelms a target server or network with traffic from multiple compromised systems, rendering it unavailable to legitimate users.

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Firewall IDS IPS VPN DMZ NAC VLAN Subnet Packet Sniffing ARP Spoofing DNS Spoofing MITM Attack
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