What is the denial of service?

Denial of service (DoS) refers to a cyberattack that aims to disrupt or temporarily suspend the services of a host connected to the internet, typically by overwhelming the target system with a flood of malicious traffic. This flood of traffic can exhaust system resources such as bandwidth, processing power, or memory, rendering the system unavailable to legitimate users.

Denial-of-service (DoS) is a form of cyberattack where attackers attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users by disrupting services, such as temporarily or indefinitely disconnecting wireless access points from the network or disrupting connectivity to the Internet. Users generally use administrative access them to

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