Denial Of Service (DOS) Attack

Thu, Aug 6, 2009

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A DoS or Denial of Service attack is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable. This is done by flooding a resource with fake “jibberish” requests, taking up system resources and making it impossible for a service to respond to legitimate requests.

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