A cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable by flooding the target.
1 A sustained traffic hit may be a worm or a denial - of - service attack .
2 This sort of problem is often what allows a denial - of - service attack to succeed.
3 But the latest attack is much more serious than a typical denial - of - service attack .
4 This is all that a denial - of - service attack can do: register protest.
5 A short time later, a denial - of - service attack was launched against the ITU's main website.
6 The attack is the Usenet equivalent of a denial - of - service attack .
7 What you saw were the side-effects of a "distributed denial - of - service attack " .
8 On Wednesday, Facebook said the situation did not appear to be the result of a denial - of - service attack .
9 Authorities have arrested a 16-year-old they say launched a rudimentary distributed denial - of - service attack against Miami-Dade County schools.
10 You said there's (the possibility) of a denial - of - service attack .
11 It came as Bitfinex, one of the world's largest exchanges, said it was under sustained denial - of - service attack .
12 A denial - of - service attack is a basic hacking attack that brings down a website by spamming it with data.
13 But he has already concluded there was a failure in the geo-blocking service during the fourth denial - of - service attack .
14 MetService has had more problems with its website, after confirming it was the victim of a denial - of - service attack yesterday.
15 The group's new actions seemed to have amounted to a short-lived distributed denial - of - service attack on the Minneapolis Police website.
16 Netsites for a dozen calliagnosia student organizations around the country were brought down today in a coordinated denial - of - service attack .
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