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  2. Fork bomb - Wikipedia

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    The concept behind a fork bomb — the processes continually replicate themselves, potentially causing a denial of service. In computing, a fork bomb (also called rabbit virus) is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack wherein a process continually replicates itself to deplete available system resources, slowing down or crashing the system due to resource starvation.

  3. List of commercial video games with available source code

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    Between 2019 and 2021 K1n9_Duk3 recreated the source code of Commander Keen 4, 5 and 6, based on the already released source code of Catacomb 3-D, Wolfenstein 3-D and Keen Dreams. When compiled with the Borland C++ v3.0 compiler, compressing the newly created executables with LZEXE 100% identical copies of the original v1.4 executables are ...

  4. Billion laughs attack - Wikipedia

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    Fork bomb: a similar method to exhaust a system's resources through recursion; Zip bomb: a similar attack utilizing zip archives; XML external entity attack: an XML attack to return arbitrary server files; Document type definition: a template for validating XML files

  5. Fandom (website) - Wikipedia

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    Fandom [a] (formerly known as Wikicities and Wikia) [b] is a wiki hosting service that hosts wikis mainly on entertainment topics (i.e., video games, TV series, movies, entertainers, etc.). [9]

  6. Zip bomb - Wikipedia

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    A famous example of a zip bomb is titled 42.zip, which is a zip file of unknown authorship [4] consisting of 42 kilobytes of compressed data, containing five layers of nested zip files in sets of 16, each bottom-layer archive containing a 4.3-gigabyte (4 294 967 295 bytes; 4 GiB − 1 B) file for a total of 4.5 petabytes (4 503 599 626 321 920 ...

  7. Logic bomb - Wikipedia

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    A logic bomb is a piece of code intentionally inserted into a software system that will set off a malicious function when specified conditions are met. For example, a programmer may hide a piece of code that starts deleting files (such as a salary database trigger ), should they ever be terminated from the company.

  8. Fork (software development) - Wikipedia

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    The word "fork" has been used to mean "to divide in branches, go separate ways" as early as the 14th century. [2] In the software environment, the word evokes the fork system call, which causes a running process to split itself into two (almost) identical copies that (typically) diverge to perform different tasks.

  9. fork (system call) - Wikipedia

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    Fork and its variants are typically the only way of doing so in Unix-like systems. For a process to start the execution of a different program, it first forks to create a copy of itself. Then, the copy, called the " child process ", calls the exec system call to overlay itself with the other program: it ceases execution of its former program in ...