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Denial of service attacks

LC control no.sh2009009013
Topical headingDenial of service attacks
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Variant(s)DDoS attacks
Distributed denial of service attacks
DoS attacks
See alsoCyberterrorism
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Found inWork cat.: No, Giseop. An efficient and reliable DDoS attack detection algorithm using a fast entropy computation method, 2009: p. 2 (Denial of service attacks uses multiple systems to attack one or more victim systems with the intent of denying service to legitimate users of the victim systems)
Webopedia, Oct. 27, 2009: (DoS attack: Short for denial-of-service attack, a type of attack on a network that is designed to bring the network to its knees by flooding it with useless traffic.)
Wikipedia, Oct. 27, 2009: (A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users.)