Question

DDoS stands for _________________

(a) Direct Distribution of Server

(b) Distributed Denial of Service

(c) Direct Distribution of Service

(d) Distributed Denial of Server

I have been asked this question in an international level competition.

The doubt is from Attack Vectors in portion Understanding Attack Vectors of Cyber Security

Answer 1

Right option is (b) Distributed Denial of Service

For explanation I would say: When a DoS attack comes from a large number of IP addresses, this makes it hard to manually filter or crash the traffic from such sources and the attack is known as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.