You are correct a DDoS (Distributed Denial Of Service) is intended to take a target off line or simply slow down the target significantly (ideally making the service useless)
While it is very unlikely to cause hardware damage it can be extremely damaging to a company or service.
Service outages undermine customer trust and could drive users to your competitors. A company might also have a service level agreement with large financial costs associated with a service being down.
If you don't mind the service being down, then why have it? It going down will probably have some very negative effect.
While it is very unlikely to cause hardware damage it can be extremely damaging to a company or service.
Service outages undermine customer trust and could drive users to your competitors. A company might also have a service level agreement with large financial costs associated with a service being down.
If you don't mind the service being down, then why have it? It going down will probably have some very negative effect.