DOS
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- noun
- NSFW
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ataque de denegación de servicio
- We examine investors' reactions to an event of this type: distributed denial of service (DOS) attacks launched by hackers against several of the best-known Internet firms in February 2000.
- DoS events
Examples
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How did the firms that experienced a DoS attack overcome the weaknesses that the attack illuminated?
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However, recent attack trends reveal an emerging threat of DoS attacks by low and slow attack tools.
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Did any of the attacked firms discuss their DoS experiences in their annual reports?
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Obviously, there are many more issues that could be explored to better understand DoS events.
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In addition to the authentication attacks, the presentation will show how DOS attacks can disrupt an IAX network and its devices quite easily.
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The website went down for hours due to a DOS attack, frustrating many users trying to access it.
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After a DOS attack on their servers, the company implemented new security measures to improve resilience.
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During the conference, experts discussed how a DOS attack can disrupt online services and cause significant financial loss.
Synonyms
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4.4
An attack on computer systems that damages them or steals information
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6.5
A large amount of unwanted requests sent to a server to make it stop working
An attack that makes a website stop working by sending too much traffic
A network attack that sends many fake messages to overload a server
Antonyms
Compounds
A group of companies and research centers in the city that make planes and engines
Surface Forms
Morphology
DOS = D + O + S
This is an acronym/initialism (Denial of Service); the letters themselves are not meaningful morphemes and do not transparently reveal the sense.
Etymology
DOS can also mean Denial of Service, which is about 'denying' a 'service' to real users by flooding a server so it cannot work, like a crowd blocking a shop door so no customers can get in.