What makes half a United States network? DDoS white paper show you truth-IT information

IT information United States Web technologies provider Dyn announced in Friday morning local time, the company suffered a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks, resulting in a number of sites in the United States East coast down, includes Netflix, Twitter, websites such as Spotify and Reddit have been affected.

The so-called DDoS, its English name was Distributed Denial of Service, distributed denial of service attack. The attack with the help of client/server technology, multiple computers together as an attack platform, DDoS attacks against one or more targets, and exponentially increase the power of denial of service attacks.

Typically, an attacker using a stolen account on the DDoS master program is installed on a computer, in the master control program for a set period of time and a large number of agent communication, the agent has been installed on many computers on the network. Agents received instructions to launch an attack. Using client/server technology, master control program can activate hundreds of times in a few seconds the agent run.

DDoS occurs all, like affecting United States East Coast to popular sites in batches of distributed denial of service attack is rare indeed, Tencent has produced a white paper on DDoS, take you through how much harm DDoS.

是什么让半个美国网络瘫痪？DDoS白皮书带你看真相 - IT资讯

IT资讯讯 美国网站技术提供商Dyn宣布，该公司在当地时间周五早上遭遇了一次DDoS（分布式拒绝服务）攻击，从而导致许多网站在美国东海岸地区宕机，包含Netflix、Twitter、Spotify和Reddit等网站都受到殃及。

所谓DDoS，它的英文全称是Distributed Denial of Service，即分布式拒绝服务攻击。该攻击借助于客户/服务器技术，将多个计算机联合起来作为攻击平台，对一个或多个目标发动DDoS攻击，从而成倍地提高拒绝服务攻击的威力。

通常，攻击者使用一个偷窃帐号将DDoS主控程序安装在一个计算机上，在一个设定的时间主控程序将与大量代理程序通讯，代理程序已经被安装在网络上的许多计算机上。代理程序收到指令时就发动攻击。利用客户/服务器技术，主控程序能在几秒钟内激活成百上千次代理程序的运行。

DDoS无时无刻不在发生，不过像是波及美国东海岸成批热门网站的分布式拒绝服务攻击确实较为罕见，为此，腾讯制作了一份DDoS白皮书，带你理清究竟DDoS危害有多大。