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Distributed denial of service (DDOS)
A type of denial-of-service (DoS) attack in which more than one traffic generator directs traffic to a targeted URL. Traffic-generating programmes are called agents, and the controlling programme is the master. DDoS agents receive instruction from a master to carry out an attack, which is designed to disable or shut down the targeted URL.
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