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denial-of-service attack
- Often spread by e-mail viruses, these are deliberately planned attacks on a companies or organizations, Web sites , or servers. They aim to shut down access to a site or key server by flooding it with massive requests, placing such great demands on the targeted information infrastructure that no one else can gain access to it. ( See cyberwarfare .)
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