Denial-of-service attack
nounid
2283·updated May 9, 2026candidate
An assault on a service from a single source that floods it with so many requests that it becomes overwhelmed and is either stopped completely or operates at a significantly reduced rate
MWE
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- acronym
- DoS
- plural
- Denial-of-service attacks
- possessive
- Denial-of-service attack's
- pluralpossessive
- Denial-of-service attacks'
Framework definitions
- §1
- An assault on a service from a single source that floods it with so many requests that it becomes overwhelmed and is either stopped completely or operates at a significantly reduced rate
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