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distributed denial-of-service is a common form of cyber attack used by a wide range of perpetrators, the nature of which makes it difficult to attribute responsibility to a particular group. The security service’s public site was briefly unavailable for intermittent periods in the morning but is now back online – with the incident resolved. The website is believed to have been subject to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which seeks to disrupt a site by flooding it with web traffic in a bid to try and knock it offline. How can you avoid DDOS on a website?

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