cyberassault

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noun

An attack carried out by means of a computer network.

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Meanings

nouncyberassault (plural cyberassaults)

plural cyberassaults

  1. An attack carried out by means of a computer network.

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

    2007, George Walter Reynolds, Ethics in information technology
    2 more 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).

    2002, Christian Barnes, Eric Ouellet, Neal O'Farrell, Hack proofing your wireless network

    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...

    2005, Vince Flynn, Consent to kill

Origin

From cyber- + assault.

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cyberassault. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberassault

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Chicago

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