What is a DDoS Attack and How Does It Work | Explained

Want more relevant cybersecurity-related explainer videos? CLICK HERE 👉 https://ift.tt/QGe5DRs 🦾 Welcome to cybernews.com, join me today as we explore what a DDoS attack is and how you can prevent them at least to a point. Let’s dive into this explainer… ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ❓ What is a DDoS Attack? So what is a DDoS attack? There are two LEVELS of attacks we're talking about here - A DENIAL OF SERVICE (DoS) and DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE (DDoS) attack. In general, both levels of malicious attacks seek to block users of the ability to access certain internet services by flooding the targeted system with a huge amount of fake traffic. Since servers are built to withstand a certain pressure, like a bridge with weight warning labels, the system clogs as soon as there is too much traffic, and the bridge might just collapse. A DENIAL OF SERVICE attack is usually done by one malicious actor or just a few devices under their control. If someone has a grudge against their workplace they can try to overwhelm web servers with requests and block access to important information to other employees. But one computer can't really make that much of a difference, and that's where BOTNET comes in. BOTs are basically hijacked computer machines all around the globe. Through various means, mostly phishing or fake file downloads, malicious actors infect the computers of a large number of users. These computers become "slaves" and now, most of the time without the user even noticing, their PC is joining the malicious actor's network to launch an attack. This is where we go from the denial of service attack to the distributed attack. Since the system is attacked through multiple entry points, as you can probably guess, negating this kind of attack is much more difficult. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🔮 DDoS Targets Sadly the targets of DDoS attacks aren’t oppressive governments or shady corporations, most of the time it is business vendors, gaming services, or bank servers. For example, in 2018, the Danish rail operator DSB fell victim to a DDoS attack, taking down its ticket buying system, slowing down trains, and costing lots of money. Another example is the Mirai botnet attack, where in 2016 hundreds of Minecraft servers were targeted with a widespread attack. What's even worse in this case, the botnet went "rogue", attacking various different servers around the east USA. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🔮 Stop/Prevent DDoS attacks So is there any way to stop or prevent DDoS attacks? Or protect your website? First, you need to monitor your network for any changes and be able to act fast, second have a backup plan ready, like contacting your ISP provider or using Cloudflare UNDER ATTACK mode to reroute traffic. Next, don't spare expenses on a good and secure hosting provider and buy a Virtual Private Server or Cloud hosting plan. For example, Hostinger uses advanced hardware firewalls and other tools for DDoS mitigation. On your local network level, a VPN is a very effective method to add a protection level from DDoS attacks. Most VPNs have lots of measures to mitigate these types of attacks, but even in general, VPNs mask your real IP address, meaning that when an attack is launched against you, all that malicious traffic will go to the VPN's IP and not yours. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conclusion What is a DDoS attack and why does it happen? Can you stop DDoS attack? What was the biggest DDoS attack ever? How long do DDoS attacks last? What happens after a DDoS attack? Can DDoS attacks be traced? Who is targeted in a DDoS attack? What is active attack? What is spoofing attack? So in this video we will try to answer all these questions and I think you should have the basics of DDoS explained. Thanks for watching! See you soon! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want to learn more about DDoS? We've got you covered! READ HERE 👉 https://ift.tt/vuSbGOm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0:00 Intro 0:54 What is a DDoS attack? 2:41 The Rise Of DDoS attacks 3:10 DDoS throughout history 4:20 Who are DDoS targets? 5:18 Can you prevent DDoS attacks? 5:46 Solutions to a problem! 6:31 Conclusion Keep up to date with the latest news: ➡️ Visit our site https://cybernews.com/ ➡️ Facebook https://ift.tt/QdKGSp7 ➡️ Twitter https://twitter.com/cybernews ​ ➡️ #CyberNews #CyberNewsExplainer #DDoS #DDoSAttack #ExplainMeDDoS The footage is provided by Envato Elements
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