Phrase Hound found 62 phrases and 6 compound words that contain attacks. The most common are listed below. Open attacks in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 62
- Terrorist attacks
- heart attacksplural of heart attack: An acute myocardial infarction, sometimes fatal, caused by the sudden occurrence of coronary thrombosis, which obstructs the blood supply to the heart and leads to necrosis of heart muscle tissue.
- personal attacksplural of personal attack: An abusive remark about a person, without supporting evidence.
- panic attacksplural of panic attack: A sudden period of intense anxiety, mounting physiological arousal, fear, stomach problems and discomfort that are associated with a variety of somatic and cognitive symptoms.
- Terror attacks
- suicide attacksplural of suicide attack: An attack on others that involves the assailant committing suicide.
- acid attacksplural of acid attack: The act of throwing a corrosive substance such as acid on a person as a form of assault.
- counter-attacksplural of counter-attack: An attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
- dictionary attacksplural of dictionary attack: An attempt to illegally access a computer network, website, etc., that uses a list of words (from a dictionary) to try to guess decryption keys or passwords.
- time attacksplural of time attack: An attack in which one may gain an advantage in time against one's opponent or rival.
- denial-of-service attacksplural of denial-of-service attack: A type of network computer attack that attempts to render a particular service (e.g. web site) unavailable to its audience.
- cyber-attacksplural of cyber-attack: An attack or intrusion by means of a computer network such as the Internet, often for the purpose of spying.
- asthma attacksplural of asthma attack: An incident wherein a person who suffers intermittent experiences of bronchioconstriction undergoes such an experience, usually with a sudden onset.
- shark attacksplural of shark attack: The act or practice of shouting and yelling by a drill instructor at an enlistee on their first day of training.
- supply chain attacksplural of supply chain attack: A cyberattack via a third party in the victim's digital supply chain.
- replay attacksplural of replay attack: An attempt to subvert security by recording legitimate communications and repeating them to try to impersonate a valid user.
- shatter attacksplural of shatter attack: A means of bypassing security restrictions between processes in a session by having a less privileged process inject code into the message loop of a more privileged one.
- Sybil attacksplural of Sybil attack: An attack that subverts a reputation system by forging a large number of identities in peer-to-peer networks.
- man-in-the-middle attacksplural of man-in-the-middle attack: A security attack in which someone intercepts the communication between a device and the server it is connected to, simulating the device to the server and simulating the server to the device.
- transient ischemic attacksplural of transient ischemic attack: A temporary cessation or reduction of blood supply to part of the brain, resulting in brief neurologic dysfunction that usually persists for less than 24 hours.
- preimage attacksplural of preimage attack: An attack on a cryptographic hash function that is able to find a preimage for a hash; that is, it is able to determine (faster than by brute force) some input that results in a known hash when passed through the …
- birthday attacksplural of birthday attack: A covert method of decryption exploiting the so-called birthday paradox.
- copy attacksplural of copy attack: An attack on certain digital watermarking systems, where adding a false watermark to an item, based on a real existing watermark, may allow the attacker to have an inauthentic image declared authentic, or to impose …
- drop attacksplural of drop attack: A person's unexpected fall to the ground, without loss of consciousness, associated with neurological dysfunction.
- false attacksplural of false attack: An attack that is intended to miss or fall short, so as to produce a reaction from the opponent. Also called a false action.
Compound words 6
- counterattacksplural of counterattack; alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
- cyberattacksthird-person singular simple present indicative of cyberattack: An attack or intrusion by means of a computer network such as the Internet, often for the purpose of spying.
- afterattacksplural of afterattack: Subsequent to an attack.
- bioattacksplural of bioattack: An attack against a large number of people using bioweapons.
- multiattacksplural of multiattack: A multiple attack.
- subattacksplural of subattack: An attack forming part of a greater attack.