Definition of "DDoS"

Stuart Staniford, president of Silicon Defense in Eureka, Calif., notes, however, that if the zombie computers “had a long target list and a control mechanism to allow dynamic retargeting, [they] could have DDoSed servers used to map addresses to contact information, the ones used to distribute patches, the ones belonging to companies that analyze worms or distribute incident response information. […]”

2001, Scientific American, page 51

On February 9, 2000, web sites such as Yahoo! and CNN were DDoSed off the Internet, mostly by spoofed smurf attacks.

2003, Stephen Northcutt, Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to Firewalls, VPNs, Routers, and Intrusion Detection Systems, New Riders, page 9

The system got DDoSed (knocked out of commission by many distributed denial of service attacks), many lawsuits were threatened, and at one point power was even mysteriously lost to the facility, bringing the list down for days (and causing many network interruptions in the process).

2005, Jonathan A. Zdziarski, “Historical Approaches to Fighting Spam”, in Ending Spam: Bayesian Content Filtering and the Art of Statistical Language Classification, No Starch Press, part I (An Introduction to Spam Filtering), page 29