The impact of a successful DDOS attack can be financial loss and damage to a company's .

One common method of conducting a DDOS attack is through a of infected computers.

DDOS attacks can be mitigated by using and intrusion prevention systems.

DDOS attacks can be launched using various types of such as UDP flooding or SYN flooding.

DDOS attacks are illegal and punishable under various laws.

A DDOS attack aims to disrupt normal traffic.

The goal of a DDOS attack is to make a target unavailable to its users.

DDOS attacks can overwhelm a target server by flooding it with a large amount of .