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Blizzard Entertainment, an American video game developer and publisher announced on Monday that they are under a massive DDoS attack which may cause significant delay and disconnections for some gamers. The company assured the gamers that it would not affect their system and that a DDoS attack is ‘basically a clogged pipe on the internet.’
However, a Twitter user dismissed the claims of the company by responding that the delay is caused due to poor load balancing on the systems rather than a DDoS attack. His position in the game’s queue was 2376, and his turn to enter the game was expected to take 54 minutes.
How does a DDoS attack work?
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack occurs when multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers. A DDoS attack uses more than one unique IP address or machine often from thousands of hosts infected with malware.
A distributed denial of service attack typically involves more than around 3–5 nodes on different networks; fewer nodes may qualify as a DoS attack but is not a DDoS attack. These networks consist of computers and other devi
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