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NEW: When is a DDoS not a DDoS?

NEW: When is a DDoS not a DDoS?

From the course: Ethical Hacking: Denial of Service

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NEW: When is a DDoS not a DDoS?

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- [Narrator] There have been a number of infamous denial of service attacks. And the predictions are for many more to come. However, when a service goes down due to being flooded by incoming traffic, it isn't necessarily a cyber attack. In 2015, the FCC passed what became known as the net neutrality legislation, which forced internet service providers to enable access to all content and applications, regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites. In 2018, the FCC decided to repeal the legislation, and to challenge individual states that passed their own net neutrality regulations. The issue of net neutrality is one which has triggered quite passionate responses. Viewers of the Last Week Tonight show were encouraged to file comments through the FCC's website, asking the FCC to preserve its net neutrality rules. The next day, the FCC's website was unavailable. The FCC chairman Ajit Pai, was quick to denounce the crash, as a distributed denial…

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