Someone knows my public IP, Can they DDoS me?

MessyBugatti

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Jan 7, 2016
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Hello,

I have got my IP Address found by this loser who pretends he is in anonymous and stuff but the question is can they do much with it when it comes to DoSing me?

Cheers to anyone who replies
 
Sure, if someone knows your IP address they can DoD/DDoS you. You should check your router to make sure remote access is disabled and that it does not respond to external ping requests.
 
In general they can not do a lot without spending money. It is not something you can do from your home connection because you will DoS yourself by using all your upload bandwidth well before you exceed someone download bandwidth. The only way to really do this is run a bunch of machine from a lot of locations. It not like it is easy to hack a bunch of people machine and take control of them. The only people that do that sell the use of these machines to others. Someone would have to hate you a lot to spend money to do DoS by renting these machines from the hackers.