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Denial of service (DoS)

A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is an attack specifically designed to prevent the normal functioning of a system and thereby to prevent lawful access to the system by authorised users. Hackers can cause Denial of Service attacks by destroying or modifying data or by overloading the system's servers until service to authorised users is delayed or prevented. Also see: attack.

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