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DoS attack vs DDoS attack: What is the difference?

DoS attack vs DDoS attack – what is its main comparison? We will explore this today!

What is a DoS attack?

Dos is short of a Denial of Service attack. In this attack, a single attacker targets a device, trying to make it unavailable to its users. It does it by flooding it with traffic or exploiting vulnerabilities of a network protocol.

While DoS attacks are smaller than DDoS attacks, they can still have significant impacts on the availability and performance of a victim’s device. They can slow down, crash, and disrupt the normal processes of a server.

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DNSSEC explained for beginners

Introduce to DNSSEC

In order to supply cryptographic authentication to DNS data, a set of security techniques known as DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) was built. It verifies and validates the accuracy of DNS data, so you know they haven’t been changed.

Because it validates each DNS query step, network experts frequently refer to it as a chain of trust.

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