denial-of-service attack

collocation in English

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attack
noun
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/əˈtæk/us
/əˈtæk/
a violent act intended to hurt or damage someone ...
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(Definition ofattackfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The website subsequently became inaccessible, possibly owing to adenial-of-serviceattack.
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The site was briefly taken down following a distributeddenial-of-serviceattack, but was restored several hours later.
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Furthermore, a client could easily mount adenial-of-serviceattackon a server by sending a request and never attempting to receive the reply.
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Use of a deliberate server hog is known as adenial-of-serviceattack, a behaviour exhibited by many viruses, worms and trojan horses.
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This means adenial-of-serviceattackcould be launched against the network which could as a consequence lead to service interruption and censorship.
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On the other hand, awareness of pathological inputs is important as they can be exploited to mount adenial-of-serviceattackon a computer system.
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The one-way communications flow adds a factor of safety, even though the wireless network is protected against outside interference, such as adenial-of-serviceattack.
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Some people confused what the artists did with adenial-of-serviceattack.
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Exploitation of this flaw would therefore be adenial-of-serviceattack.
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In fact, any attack against availability would be classed as adenial-of-serviceattack.
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When purposefully exploited this is known as one variation of adenial-of-serviceattack.
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The virtual sit-in attempts to recreate that same action digitally using a distributeddenial-of-serviceattack.
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