The term “DDoS” can strike terror in the hearts of network operators, web site owners, gamers, educators, or anyone who relies on Internet service – which today means just about everyone. “DDoS” – pronounced “dee-doss” – stands for Distributed Denial of Service. It refers to a type of Internet attack where the attacker uses many hundreds or thousands of computers (the “distributed” part) to target a single system, with the goal of denying the target’s ability to use the Internet (the “denial of service” part).
