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DoS attack: // [Usenet,common; note that it's unrelated to DOS as name of an operating system]
Abbreviation for Denial-Of-Service attack. This abbreviation is most often
used of attempts to shut down newsgroups with floods of
spam, or to flood network links with large amounts
of traffic, or to flood network links with large amounts of traffic, often
by abusing network broadcast addresses. Compare
slashdot effect.
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