Edwin had bombarded the website with so many data packets that it crashed – something known as a DDoS attack.

埃德温用大量的数据包轰击该网站，使其崩溃--这就是DDoS攻击。

But some free-speech activists think automatic criminalisation of DDoS attacks is unfair.

但是一些言论自由的活动分子认为将DDoS 攻击自动定罪并不公平。

Unlike some forms of internet mischief DDoS attacks generally are not clever or complex.

有别于其他形式的网络恶作剧的是，DDoS攻击一般而言并不巧妙也不算复杂。

The technical means of blocking DDoS attacks are growing.The legal screws are tightening too.

用于阻止DDoS攻击的技术途径越来越多，相关法律规范也日益严格。

Mt Gox, the largest exchange for Bitcoin, a digital currency, said market manipulators used DDoS attacks to drive down prices in April.

最大的比特币（Bitcoin）（一种电子货币）交易商Mt Gox 表示市场操纵者在今年4月就曾用DDoS攻击压低交易价格。

Minutes later a website of the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa's ruling party, went offline: another victim of the oldest and crudest form of cyber-assault, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

不出几分钟南非执政党非洲国民大会（African National Congress，ANC）的网站就挂线了，成为最古老也最残暴的网络攻击方式-----分布式拒绝服务（DDoS）攻击的又一个受害者。

This can have many purposes, like sending huge volumes of spam, mining bitcoins using other people's computing power and electricity, and launching Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS attacks against servers.

这可以有很多目的，例如发送大量垃圾邮件、使用其他人的计算能力和电力来挖掘比特币，以及对服务器发起分布式拒绝服务或 DDoS 攻击。