Defined term
Distributed Denial-of-service (ddos) Attack
Distributed Denial-of-service (ddos) Attack: An email authentication, policy, and reporting protocol that verifies the authenticity of the sender of an email…
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Cybersecurity
Definition
An email authentication, policy, and reporting protocol that verifies the authenticity of the sender of an email and blocks and reports fraudulent accounts.
Alternative Definitions
- Definition 2
A type of cyber attack designed to prevent users from accessing a network-connected service by sending simultaneous illegitimate requests from numerous sources. Data is sent to overload a network’s resources.
- Definition 3
Abbreviated DDOS.
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March 2020 CSC Report
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ODNI Cyber Threats to Elections Lexicon
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Electronic Voting Glossary
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