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- abbreviation computing, Internet
Denial of Service - abbreviation teaching Director of Studies; someone
in charge of theacademic side of a school including training teachers and deciding course materials.
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The technical descriptions of all the hacker tactics that are commonly called DoS attacks lie outside the scope of this article.
DoS: A Single Point of Failure - Shelly Palmer - MediaBizBloggers 2009
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From a spambot network, which would be a new source of spam e-mails, to using it to cause Denial of Service attacks, also known as DoS, which is the constant reloading of a Web site from several computers to overload and take down the server.
FIUSM.com 2009
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The technical descriptions of all the hacker tactics that are commonly called DoS attacks lie outside the scope of this article.
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Now that we have the basic Denial of Service Attacks (aka DoS attacks) and the Reconnaissance Attacks out of the way, let's talk about other types of network attacks.
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A DoS occurs when a malicious host forges an IP packet with a fake IP address and sends a large number of TCP SYN messages to the victim host.
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Now that we have the basic Denial of Service Attacks (aka DoS attacks) and the Reconnaissance Attacks out of the way, let's talk about other types of network attacks.
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United States District Court for the District of Columbia, charging that ArmorGroup management retaliated against him for whistleblowing, internally and to the United States Department of State ( "DoS"), about illegalities committed by ArmorGroup in the performance of AGNA's contracts with the United States to provide security services at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul,
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I agree that there was no server crash; perhaps I should have said "DoS" (there is a character limit you know), but the effect was about the same:
doggdot.us 2009
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Because of this, threats such as DoS attacks on VoIP networks, directory harvesting, and "vishing" attacks are rapidly increasing in popularity.
ThomasNet Industrial Newsroom - Today's New Product News 2009
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Because of this, threats such as DoS attacks on VoIP networks, directory harvesting, and "vishing" attacks are rapidly increasing in popularity.
ThomasNet Industrial Newsroom - Today's New Product News 2009
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