"You can't thwart a DDoS attack
There's a great variety of attacks and hacks that black hats can perpetrate on your network. Fortunately, you can prevent most of them using an assortment of security measures.

However, a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) is an entirely different story. You can't thwart a DDoS attack

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