Instead of seeing your server get pummeled by a single address, that pummeling comes from a distributed collection of servers. This type of attack uses the same idea behind the denial of service attack, only it distributes the attack over a number of servers. There’s another, similar, type of attack, called the distributed denial of service (DDoS) that is more challenging to discover and stop. How to secure your email via encryption, password management and more (TechRepublic Premium) Meet the most comprehensive portable cybersecurity device DoS stands for denial of service, which is a very common attack on servers that can render them unusable until the issue is mitigated. Recently I wrote a piece on how to detect and stop a DoS attack on Linux. Jack Wallen walks you through some of the steps you can take to check for and mitigate distributed denial of service attacks on a Linux server. How to check for and stop DDoS attacks on Linux
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