Can DDOS affect your computer?

Can DDOS affect your pc?

There are a lot of reports every day about various cyber attacks carried out by hackers to destroy users' systems and steal their information.

People who design different sites (In Slovak:  navrhovať rôzne stránky  ) or develop the site, do their best to be able to increase the safety of different systems by observing safety tips during their work and prevent hackers from achieving their goals.

It would help if you also kept in mind that one of  the main goals of various site owners is to attract many visitors to their site, but hackers will act as an obstacle to their development through an attack.

Given all this, it is necessary to increase the security of your systems and prevent these people from achieving their sinister goals by having enough information about possible threats and being aware of the various types of attacks that carried out by them.

One of these cyberattacks, which is very common among various hackers, especially black hat hackers, is called  DDoS attack, which; you can hear more than a thousand reports of this type of cyber attack every day.

In this article, we want to tell you about the effect that these types of attacks have on the computer so that you can finally  increase the security of your system  according to them and do continue your task in a secure environment.

What is a DDOS attack?

DDoS attack stands for  Distributed Denial-of-Service, in which the attacker aims to disrupt server traffic and can eventually cause one or more devices to crash.

This attack can cause a lot of damage to the owners of different sites because they lose many of their customers easily.

Imagine that you are visiting a site which has been attacked by hackers, eventually you won't be able to use that site so that you will quickly log out of it, then you will try to meet your needs through other websites, as a result, the credibility of the site will decrease, and users' trust will be lost as well.

As you know, regaining the trust of users is so difficult and requires a lot of time, energy and money.

What is the main purpose of carrying out these attacks?

Simply put, the main purpose of this attack is to disrupt the traffic of a site, which does not let site owners achieve their goals.

In fact, this attack causes a computer system that has certain functions to crash so that it won't work properly due to fake traffic.

For example, if the support center for your services is attacked, your customers won't be able to use it, or if booking engine is attacked your customers won't be able to make new bookings, these factors can have a huge impact on the credibility of your site.

Effects of these attacks:

-Takes the system out of reach:

As we have mentioned, hackers use infected devices or personal computers to bring in a lot of fake traffic to a system, and they can take the victim system out of reach by doing so.

-Stops storing data in the system:

When this attack occurs, the system is under a lot of pressure, which prevents the system from performing actions such as caching various data.

This is an important point for different sites, and if data storage becomes problematic, it can cause a lot of financial loss, for example, if the task of the infected system was to run online transaction processing programs, doing this task can be so hard.

-incurs enormous costs:

When your website receives fake traffic, it takes up a lot of bandwidth, which can be costly for you.

In fact, as you know, hosting providers charge customers a lot of money for extra bandwidth, which can be a concern if a cyber attack occurs.

In fact, as you know, this action which is done by hosting providers can be alarming in the event of a cyber attack.

-Make you unable to check all server reports:

In the event of this  type of attack, your real server reports will be mixed with thousands of reports created by fake traffic, which will prevent you from reviewing the server reports, that can also cause a lot of damage.

-Hackers use this attack to carry out more dangerous attacks:

When your system is  attacked by DDoS, you get worried and do your best to be able to filter out fake traffic, due to this, hackers may deliberately carry out such an attack to distract you, due to the fact that, these days, the number of hackers who use multiple attacks to achieve their goals is so much because they can achieve their goals as soon as possible.

Ways to increase system security against these attacks:

By now you have definitely realized that these attacks can be very dangerous for different people and organizations, so you need to  increase the security of your system against them, here we will mention some ways to be safe from them.

-Be careful in choosing the right cloud provider:

One of the things you need to pay close attention to while choosing a cloud provider is to consider its various features.

As you know, most of these providers have the ability to protect your system against all kinds of cyber attacks, including DDOS attacks, they can help the security of your system and information to some extent.

-Software update:

Another point that you should pay attention to  increase the security of your system against this type of cyber attacks  is to update all the software in our system.

As you know, the developers of different software try to fix the bugs in the previous version and release a new version which is better and has more features so that by updating software hackers cannot use the security holes in order to infiltrate your system.

-Use 3rd party its mitigation provider:

You may conclude that due to the large number of this attacks you cannot manage all of them by yourself, in which case it is possible for you to use the 3rd party DDoS mitigation provider.

Among the various providers available, we can mention Cloudflare and CloudLayar, each of which is briefly described below.

- Cloudflare:

In fact, it is a global network that various users use for the security of their systems, one of its positive features is the provision of low-cost DDoS protection packages.

- CloudLayar:

Here we can mention that users can use it for free to protect their system against DDoS attacks. It gives them the opportunity of being protected from this type of cyber attack with advanced capabilities such as layer seven and layer 3 / 4, which are designed for protection.

It should be noted that all 3rd party DDoS mitigation providers have very strong support teams, and you can contact them in case of any problems.

-Increase safety during an attack manually:

If you have received the necessary security training, it is possible for you to take various actions in the event of an attack, you have to keep calm, limit the speed of the router, remove suspicious packages, add various filters to the router and so on.

Last word:

As you know, one of the ways to  increase the security of the system against various types of cyberattacks  is to raise awareness about hacking and security, which is why we have explained various fields of hacking in the articles on our site, which you can refer to them in order to improve your knowledge.

In fact, different hackers use new methods to execute their goals and try to do more damage to various systems; however, there are lots of ways for users to deal with different types of hacking methods.

In this article, we have mentioned DDoS Attacks and their effects on systems, we have also stated that if you own large sites, you should pay close attention to this kind of attack because hackers try to target your reputation.

In business, one of the most difficult tasks is to gain the trust of users, so you should pay attention to the ways to  increase the security of the system against possible threats, which we have explained a number of available ways above.