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Denial of Service


(DoS) an attack against a system to deter its availability.

source: ISO/IEC18028-4, 2005

(DoS) The inability to use system resources due to unavailability stemming from a variety of causes for example, infiltrations by hackers, the flooding of IP addresses from external messages, and network worms.

source: D. Schweitzer, 2003, Incident Response: Computer Forensics Toolkit


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