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ASYNCHRONOUS ATTACK [2 records]

Record 1 2010-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
DEF

A penetration technique which capitalizes on a potential weakness in an operating system that does not handle negative acknowledgement or asynchronous, interrupts properly.

Key term(s)
  • negative acknowledgement attack
  • NACK attack
  • NAK

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
OBS

NAK : Abréviation uniformisée par le Comité des normes gouvernementales en informatique (CNGI) et normalisée par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 2 1993-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
OBS

Taking advantage of asynchronous events in a computer.

OBS

Several jobs may simultaneously call for output reports to be produced. The operating system stores these requests and, as resources become available, performs them in the order in which these resources can fulfill the request or according to an overriding priority indication.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique
OBS

Mise à profit du fonctionnement asynchrone des systèmes d'exploitation.

OBS

Plusieurs tâches peuvent nécessiter simultanément la production d'états de résultats. Le système d'exploitation stocke ces demandes et, à mesure que des ressources deviennent disponibles, les exécute dans l'ordre rendu possible par ces ressources en fonction de la demande ou selon les instructions globales de priorité.

Spanish

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