Admin writes:
A DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service Attack) requires network expertise and resources. Whoever did this was not only angry but skilled and well resourced.
Although you are correct that it requires resources - it doesn't actually require
their own resources.
Supposedly there is a black market for buying lists of compromised PCs.
Someone could have bought up a list and used those 'stolen' resources to DDoS this site - perhaps.
Or maybe...
DDoS is often a blanket term for a wide variety of attacks (people use that term instead of DoS) - and not all these require large amounts of resources.
(This moves out of my area of expertise but...) some attacks use system settings and server errors to use up the victim server's resources.
I don't think those kinds of attacks require more than just expertise.
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