Where the Risks Are: Higher Education Fights Back Against DDoS and Emerging Threats
Distributed denial of service attacks famously disrupt the otherwise normal traffic of a targeted server, service, or network by overwhelming the target and its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of traffic. Higher education appears particularly vulnerable to this malicious mode of attack, given the wealth and variety of data available to harvest should any shock-and-awe DDoS actors ultimately prove successful.
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