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cyberassault

noun

Etymology

From cyber- + assault.

  1. derived from ad — “at, towards”
  2. derived from assalio
  3. inherited from assaut
  4. prefixed as cyberassault — “cyber + assault”

Definitions

  1. An attack carried out by means of a computer 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...
    • Why did the NISCC believe that these attacks were different from general computer viruses and other cyberassaults that have been launched in the past?

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA