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Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in 2013 - Visualized
For a lot of business operators and those running their own website, DDoS attacks can be unfamiliar territory.
While all of the technical information behind a DDoS attack can be confusing or hard to remember, those that have experienced these sorts of cyber attacks on their website know that they can be extremely damaging to a business.
DDoS attacks, or distributed denial of service attacks, are used by outside agents in order to try and make a website, email system, voicemail system or network inaccessible for its users.