Officials in both Seoul and Washington, DC, said they were suffering “distributed denial of service” overload (known as DDOS in geekspeak).

首尔与华府的官员声称他们经历了“分布式拒绝服务”过载（在极客术语中被称为DDOS）。

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Botnets are often used to perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which bring web servers down by overloading them with traffic, but this new line of attack is different.

僵尸网络通常被用于进行分布式拒绝服务(Distributed Denial of service, DDoS)攻击，其可以通过使其流量过载的方式使网络服务器瘫痪；但这种新的攻击与之不同。

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They first attempted a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which floods a target with massive amounts of traffic.

他们首先尝试了DDoS攻击，也就是分布式拒绝服务攻击——向攻击目标发送大量数据。

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Security experts say the attack uses more sophisticated techniques than most DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks and targets the Web's infrastructure, which has led to other sites performing slowly.

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The TechHerald points out that Sony has suffered seven security incidents in two months, including an original mass DDoS (distributed denial of service) by Anonymous last month and the devastating breach that compromised the data of more than 100 million account holders of the PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment.

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Many people are familiar with Anonymous, the hacker collective that is known for its DDOS, or distributed denial of service, attacks that take websites offline, and backed the 2011 Occupy movement and WikiLeaks' Julian Assange.

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