attack definition

attack

General: Realization of a threat. There is no legal definition of attack. See also aggression and assault.

Computer security: Malicious action taken by a hacker, intruder, or unauthorized user to cause damage to the system and/or to the data stored in it, through exploitation of one or more system vulnerabilities. See also active attack.

attack is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law and Data Management, Communications, & Networks subjects.

attack appears in the definitions of the following terms: debugging, hedonic damages, security audit, data driven attack, computer emergency response team (CERT), mercury, danger zone, reasonable force, allergic reaction, victim and

attack appears in the other terms: passive attack, active attack, denial of service (DOS) attack

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