Denial-of-Service Attacks

This informative book provides an accessible overview of denial-of-service attacks, describing how and why this cyber threat happens and how people fight it. The book also includes a special feature focused on cyber safety, several informative sidebars, a reading comprehension quiz, a glossary, additional resources, and an index.

"The world of cybersecurity is still evolving, and this volume from the Cyber Threats series takes a close look at distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), or when hackers program high amounts of traffic to access a website in order to overwhelm servers." —Booklist

This informative book provides an accessible overview of denial-of-service attacks, describing how and why this cyber threat happens and how people fight it. The book also includes a special feature focused on cyber safety, several informative sidebars, a table of contents, a reading comprehension quiz, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers book is at the Navigator level, aligned to reading levels of grades 3–5 and interest levels of grades 4–7.

• | Author: Connor Stratton
• | Publisher: North Star Editions
• | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2025
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9798889985167
• | ISBN-10: 888998516Y