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That's the key difference between a DOS and a DDOS, yes. Since I can't load the OP article on this machine for some reason, I can't review the symptoms describe
by cheschire 8y ago
That's the key difference between a DOS and a DDOS, yes. Since I can't load the OP article on this machine for some reason, I can't review the symptoms described. The title of the article does say DDOS, however, which is focused more on saturating bandwidth, not CPU.
- giancarlostoro 8y ago> The title of the article does say DDOS, however, which is focused more on saturating bandwidth, not CPU. Sadly DDoS has at times been used as a blanket term that also includes DoS.
- chias 8y agoThe headline and article itself do indeed (incorrectly) call it a DDOS attack. The attack itself was very much non-distributed, and involved a single malicious actor `curl`ing an expensive API endpoint in a loop.