16 lakh bot attacks a minute hit G20 portal as Summit began

According to I4C CEO Rajesh Kumar, the 16 lakh bot attacks were part of an attempted distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The aim of a DDoS attack is to overwhelm a network by flooding it with superfluous traffic so it can't handle requests from legitimate users. "When you do a DDoS attack, the attacker creates bots and...