Remote System Crash

Remote System Crash definition - hacker
Typically caused by a fault in the operating system software that makes it stop working properly, if at all. A remote system crash is caused by a fault or exploited vulnerability in the networking components of the operating system.

See Also: Operating System Software.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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