In computing, a denial-of-service (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS) is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. A DoS or DDoS attack generally consists of efforts to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.
Short for denial-of-service attack, a type of attack on a network that is designed to bring the network to its knees by flooding it with useless traffic. Many DoS attacks, …