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What makes a denial-of-service attack 'distributed'?

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  1. It targets only distributed databases
  2. It encrypts files across drives
  3. It uses many hosts to perform the attack

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References

  1. Distributed denial of service, NIST CSRC glossary csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/distributed_denial_of_service Checked 2026-10-10.
  2. Denial of service, NIST CSRC glossary csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/denial_of_service Checked 2026-10-10.
  3. CompTIA A+ Core 2 (220-1202) Exam Objectives v1.1 lecbyo.files.cmp.optimizely.com/download/84764f7a85ba11ef87e9da1cab964337 Checked 2026-10-10.

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