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Denial of Service

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Description: Type of attack that prevents nominal behavior. Examples are: - disabling a service - wasting CPU cycles - taking large amounts of memory, resulting in swapping or paging - using network bandwidth - filling disks In all cases, legitimate users are affected. See http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/denial_of_service.html for more information.


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