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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August 6th, 2009 at 10:47 am
[...] (August 06, 2009) that Twitter.com, the ever popular social micro-blogging giant, fell prey to a DOS (Denial Of Service) attack. According to Twitter’s office “status” website - [...]
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