This is the most common attack hackers use to bring down websites, and they're getting scary good at them

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are one of the most dependable and easily executed offensives hackers can use to bring down websites and organizations online. DDoS's happen when the attacker launches a series of scripts that are used to debilitate a web servers by sending them insane amounts of web traffic at the same time. When such an attack occurs, it's difficult for a victim to know what's happening. It's seems like just a wave of traffic that never seems to cease. But researche...