Who wants to learn something new today?

Good afternoon fellow readers. I thought I would share with you today an interesting concept about the Internets, interwebs, the big triple W.

There is a neat little concept out there called Denial-of-Service attack, can go by other names such as: dos attack, ddos, distributive denial attack. Has many other names, but I'll refer to it as Dos attack from here on out.

What is Dos attack you ask? Well, it's where someone gets hold of your IP address (your IP address is the code your computer gives off as an id, so that way when you are logging into a forum, or visiting web pages, they know who's computer the visit stems from...say it's like your physical home address) and they start pinging (making sure your IP address is accessible, kind of like knocking on someone's door and if they answer then you know it's a good address) your said IP address over and over again. Thus, flooding your bandwidth (how fast your computer can respond to information being sent and received over the internet, or how fast you respond to someone knocking on your door) to the point that you feel like you are using dial-up and then to the point where you can't even use your own internet.

so in other words, someone got hold of your physical home address, they then start knocking on the front door waiting for you to answer, then they starting knocking on the backdoor, then the front door again...over and over and over again, meanwhile you are running around in circles in your house trying to answer the door knocks that you don't have time or energy to do any other work intended (ie. chores, dishes, studying) inside your house.


Thank you to wikipedia.org for the easy to explain links. And there you go readers, something new you didn't know before about the Interwebs.