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Noun: DoS attack
  1. Attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users, e.g. by making many automated requests over a short time interval from many different machines
    "The website was taken offline by a massive DoS attack";
    - denial of service attack, distributed denial-of-service attack

Derived forms: DoS attacks

Encyclopedia: DoS attack