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stressor

stressor

1 8.9
A computer program that sends lots of fake traffic to a website to make it stop working
  • noun
  • /ˈstrɛsər/
  • NSFW
translation icon : herramienta de denegación de servicio
  • Law enforcement agencies are cracking down on illegal stressor services sold online.

Examples

  • Many stressor tools are advertised as testing services but are often used for attacks.

  • The hacker used a stressor to disrupt the website.

  • The hacker used a stressor to bring down the company's website for several hours.

  • Can a stressor overload a server's capacity?

  • The hacker used a sophisticated stressor to crash the company’s website during the launch.

  • To test the server's resilience, the developers deployed a stressor that simulated a massive influx of users.

  • In preparation for peak demand, they installed a stressor as a trial to monitor how the site would handle the load.

Synonyms

requestor
vsstressor
  • Specialized
6.5

A computer program or device that asks another system for information

is focused on sending excessive traffic to overload servers for attacks

Surface Forms

stressor singular
stressors plural

Morphology

stressor = stress (semi-transparent) = stress + or

It is transparently built from 'stress' plus '-or', but the computing sense is a specialized extension meaning a tool that induces overload rather than everyday psychological stress.

Etymology

In computing, stressor uses the same parts: stress ('pressure') and -or ('one who causes'), so a computing stressor is a program or service that puts heavy traffic or load on a website or server to cause an overload.