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ddos attack
DDoS mitigation
a set of network management techniques and/or tools for resisting or mitigating the impact of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on networks attached to the Internet by protecting the target and relay networks.
DDoS attacks on Dyn
On October 21, 2016, three consecutive distributed denial-of-service attacks were launched against the Domain Name System provider Dyn.
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