Short for denial of service.We have proved that this vulnerability can be easily exploited and can be used to DoS almost any SMTP service on the Internet....
This is the second attempt to tack a DoS extension onto the Computer Misuse Act.
Bombs and bullets kill people; computer viruses and DoS attacks merely irritate us.
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abbreviationComputing
Disk operating system, an operating system originally developed for IBM personal computers.