How can you protect against DDoS attacks? Renew your defences and monitor hacktivist forums
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The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, wherein the perpetrator employs a botnet to make an online service or website unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic, is a favourite weapon of cyber...
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