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  "headline": "DDoS Attack",
  "description": "A Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms a target with traffic from multiple sources, making it unavailable to legitimate users. Types: volumetric (saturate bandwidth), protocol (exploit TCP/SYN, DNS amplification), application-layer (HTTP flood, Slowloris). Defense: CDN scrubbing (Cloudflare, Akamai), rate limiting, anycast distribution.",
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