DoS
Denial-of-Service
An attack that makes a resource unavailable to legitimate users.
A Denial-of-Service attack makes a resource unavailable to legitimate users by exhausting bandwidth, connections, or compute, or by triggering a crash with malformed input. It targets the availability pillar of the CIA triad. A single-source DoS is easier to filter than a Distributed Denial-of-Service, which spreads the traffic across many compromised hosts.
Memory hook
Denial of Service from a single source.
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