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Meanings of dos attack in English
An attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users; it generally consists of the concerted efforts of a person or people to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely.
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Examples for "denial-of-service attack"
Examples for "denial-of-service attack"
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A sustained traffic hit may be a worm or a denial-of-service attack.
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This sort of problem is often what allows a denial-of-service attack to succeed.
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But the latest attack is much more serious than a typical denial-of-service attack.
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This is all that a denial-of-service attack can do: register protest.
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A short time later, a denial-of-service attack was launched against the ITU's main website.
Usage of dos attack in English
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DoS attack will clog up the routers, slow down the transmission signal.
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DOS attacks flood an organisation's website causing it to crash, but usually do little lasting damage.
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DOS attacks flood an organization's website causing it to crash, but usually do little lasting damage.
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So as a direct result of the first spam email, they accidentally created the first, DoS attack!
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In January last year, HSBC's internet banking facility was made unavailable following a DOS attack, but no transactions were affected.
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He couldn't think about it, literally couldn't think about it while this mental DoS attack was still in full flow.
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But in delving into such sensitive territory as a government sponsoring DOS attacks, Schily may stir up more controversy than he realizes.