Check your internet connection Protecting Against DDoS👇 The goal of any DDoS attack is to overwhelm a service to the point where it no longer works. While DDoS has historically been just an annoyance, there is usually a financial impact, such as lost sales or a spike in bandwidth costs. Cloud-hosted services, which charge by usage, are especially financially vulnerable to an onslaught of traffic. DDoS attacks use large numbers of computers simultaneously targeting a single service. The attack often comes from botnets, which are composed of PCs infected by a virus. Recently, DDoS has been used by political protesters, who crowdsource attackers through downloadable software. Older DoS attacks like SYN floods used limited numbers of attackers, so it was possible to use automatic per-client rate-limiting, or to block the IPs. Modern DDoS techniques try to avoid large amounts of traffic per attacker, and rely purely on large numbers. Many sites may think they’re too small to attract attent...