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'Distributed Denial Of Service': The Fastest Growing Cyber Attack

caption: Botnets, or a network of infected computers, are used to bombard a server with requests, leading to DDoS.
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Botnets, or a network of infected computers, are used to bombard a server with requests, leading to DDoS.
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David Hyde talks with Matthew Prince, CEO of CloudFlare, about what he says is the fastest growing cyber attack sweeping the nation: distributed denial of service, or DDoS.

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