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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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