AI & the web
Denial of Service
An attack that exhausts resources or otherwise prevents a service from serving legitimate users.
In everyday use
A website becomes unavailable under malicious requests.
What to keep in mind
An ordinary outage is not automatically evidence of an attack.
Also searched as: DoS
Further reading
Original explanation and example by Perspectism. Further reading may cover the wider subject, rather than this exact wording. Edition updated 7 October 2026.
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