A denial-of-service attack is an “emergent phenomenon” that doesn’t involve any kind of complicated coordination whatsoever. No one request causes the server to be overloaded and time-out a large number of other requests. But tens of thousands of requests all at once can do so.
Just ask a sysadmin.
A denial-of-service attack is an “emergent phenomenon” that doesn’t involve any kind of complicated coordination whatsoever. No one request causes the server to be overloaded and time-out a large number of other requests. But tens of thousands of requests all at once can do so.