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denial of service
(redirected from Denial-of-service attack)

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A condition in which a system can no longer respond to normal requests. See denial of service attack.
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But denial-of-service attacks can also be launched from within schools, as illustrated by a case in another New York district, where an assistant principal used e-mail bombs to harass individuals and higher education institutions for a three-year period.
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A fire, power failure or theft of hardware can shut down a computer system just as effectively as malicious code or a denial-of-service attack.
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ITTI), which suffered a denial-of-service attack that disabled its Web site earlier this year, the ECTF offers expertise in computer forensics beyond the scope of what some local law enforcement agencies can provide.
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