11/11/2026
What Is a DDoS Attack? How It Works and How to Stop One
Your phone rings on a Tuesday morning. A customer says the booking page will not load. Another call follows, then a third. By lunchtime you have taken six calls about a website that looks perfectly fine when you log in. The files are present, the database is connected, and the control panel is green.
Customers still cannot complete a booking. The site is up on your screen and unavailable on theirs. Australian cyber authorities record denial-of-service incidents each year against ordinary busines...
What is a DDoS attack? Learn how floods of traffic take sites offline, the warning signs to watch for and the defences Australian sites need.