denial of service
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Denial of Service" is a type of attack against computer systems that makes a server become
unresponsive to any user requests. This is most commonly performed by flooding the server with huge amounts of senseless requests so that the server gets busy computing all those requests.Normally, a
denial of service attack does not compromise the
server's security.
Social Network Denial-of-Service
by Nettie-AZM on Feb 03, 2010 13:44:28
When a website ends up denied (
saturated with external
communications requests, such that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic, or responds so slowly as to be rendered effectively
unavailable) due to a sudden enormous spike in popularity.
Example:
A Social Network Denial-of-Service (SNDoS) could be started by one
Facebook user setting his/her wall status to: "Go to urbandictionary.com, type in
your first name,
copy and paste this as your status and the First entry for your name under comments"