In 2018, we can expect that these attacks are only going to become more frequent and intense. Operations security (OPSEC) specialists in the know are putting this type of breach at or near the top of their priority lists.

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aren’t anything new; they’ve been around for decades. The public at large, however, has only become aware of them since the internet became mainstream in the mid-90s.

Since then, DDoS incidents have gone ballistic, with attacks reaching a size and scale never before seen.

[For the record: A DDoS hit is a type of DOS attack where multiple compromised systems, which are often infected with a Trojan, are used to target a single system, which essentially shuts down a system or website.]

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