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

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denial of service
A condition in which a system can no longer respond to normal requests. See denial of service attack.


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In addition, the company is monitoring new proof-of-concept code that was created to launch denial-of-service attacks against vulnerable IIS versions 5.
We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly," blogged Twitter on its official blog.
The so-called denial-of-service attacks targeted government ministries, agencies and major Internet portal sites, Yonhap quoted officials at the state-run Korea Information Security Agency as saying.
 
 
 
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