DDOS(Distributed denial-of-service attack)-is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users.Although the means to carry out, the motives for, and targets of a DoS attack vary, it generally consists of efforts to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.As clarification, distributed denial-of-service attacks are sent by two or more persons, or bots, and denial-of-service attacks are sent by one person or system. As of 2016, the frequency of recognized DDoS attacks had reached an average rate of 28 per hour.- Wikipedia
- Don't share your ip with ANYONE. I can't stress this enough. Even your friends will ddos you for some pixels ingame(I'v seen it happen before).
- Use a Vpn, it will protect your actual ip incase someone wants to try and ddos you.
- Don't go to any weird websites that have weird URL's most of the time they are Ip-logger sites, which just redirects you to google or whatever but obtains your ip and sends it to the creator for later use.
- Be sure to avoid being infected by keyloggers\RATs, they can log your IP as well. For more information on that check out this guide.