Meaning of cyberassault | Babel Free

Definitions

An attack carried out by means of a computer network.

Examples

“Ping floods as well as new and interesting distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks are still being developed and have⟳ been able to disrupt the service of some of the largest Internet service providers around (as was done in the cyberassaults in early 2000 against Buy⟳.com, eBay, CNN, and Amazon.com).”

“Kennedy told the man, who she had taken an extreme disliking to, that she had ordered the cyberassault and would continue⟳ to bombard his network every day...”

“Why did the NISCC believe⟳ that these attacks were different from general computer viruses and other cyberassaults that have⟳ been launched in the past?”

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