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Explain the term 'DOS attack'.- It is known as a Denial Of Service attack.
- It attempts for making computer resources unavailable to its intended users.
- Its concerted efforts of a person are to prevent a site or service from functioning efficiently, temporarily or indefinitely.
- The target site categories are banks, credit card payment gateways and root name servers.
- It is designed to get the unnecessary traffic to the network.
- These attacks exploit the limitations of the TCP/IP protocols.
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