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Denial-of-service attack tries to take down a server by sending
specially-crafted requests. The simplest form of this attack is justsending a lot of requests in a short period of time. But moresophisticated methods are possible. For example, sending a singleunusual request that overwhelms the server. One such example is a ZIPbomb, that I’ll explain later. But the most widespread techniquerequires a large number of attacking servers. Also known as distributeddenial-of-service. DDoS for short.