Denial-of-service attack
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denial-of-service-attack-171-5079181
title:
Denial-of-service attack
text:
In computing, a denial-of-service attack is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network. Denial of service is typically accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled. The range of attacks varies widely, sp
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Type of cyber-attack
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
date created:
2002-02-25T15:51:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T12:16:15Z
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