Understanding DDoS Attacks: A Case Study on Major Outages

Do you know about a DDoS attack that affected Twitter, Reddit, The New York Times, and PayPal at once? ▶ Contact Jelvix: hello@jelvix.com | jelvix.com We are a technology consulting and software development company eager to share our knowledge and experience. Subscribe for more tech tips and tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEDr9FfkfzsT-hJOQsyKyvg?sub_confirmation=1 ▶ LINKS: - Choosing Software Development Methodologies - https://jelvix.com/blog/software-development-methodologies ▶ TIME CODES: 00:00 What Is a DDoS attack? 01:59 Types of DDoS attacks 03:24 5 ways to prevent DDoS attacks ​05:02 Contact Jelvix ▶ Follow us: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JelvixCompany Twitter - https://twitter.com/jelvix Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jelvix Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/jelvix Upwork - https://www.upwork.com/ag/jelvix/ ▶ About this video: A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disturb the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network. This is often done by overwhelming the target with a flood of internet traffic. In other words, DDoS can take down a server by sending too many requests for information, exposing it and hampering an organization's usual business operations.