smurf attack

  • 1Smurf attack — The Smurf attack is a way of generating a lot of computer network traffic to a victim host. That is, it is a type of denial of service attack. Specifically, it floods a target system via spoofed broadcast ping messages.In such an attack, a… …

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  • 2Smurf (disambiguation) — Smurf can refer to: *The Smurfs, fictional tiny blue humanoids created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo in 1957 *Smurf attack, a type of denial of service (DoS) attack on computer networks *Smurfing (crime), a term related to money laundering *Smurfing …

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  • 3Denial-of-service attack — DoS redirects here. For other uses, see DOS (disambiguation). DDoS Stacheldraht Attack diagram. A denial of service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial of service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to …

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  • 4Fraggle attack — In computer security a fraggle attack is a type of denial of service attack where an attacker sends a large amount of UDP echo traffic to IP broadcast addresses, all of it having a fake source address. This is a simple rewrite of the smurf attack …

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  • 5Papa Smurf — is a male fictional character from the Smurfs. He is the third oldest of the Smurfs (after Grandpa and Nanny), and their leader. He is 542 years old [cite news |first=Eric P. |last=Nash |title= Charles Dupuis, 84, Publisher Who Introduced the… …

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  • 6Denial of Service Attack — Als Denial of Service (DoS, zu Deutsch etwa: Dienstverweigerung) bezeichnet man einen Angriff auf einen Host (Server) oder sonstigen Rechner in einem Datennetz mit dem Ziel, einen oder mehrere seiner Dienste arbeitsunfähig zu machen. In der Regel …

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  • 7Broadcast radiation — is the accumulation of broadcast and multicast traffic on a computer network. Extreme amounts of broadcast traffic constitute a broadcast storm. A broadcast storm can consume sufficient network resources so as to render the network unable to… …

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  • 8Attaque par déni de service — Une attaque par déni de service (denial of service attack, d où l abréviation DoS) est une attaque ayant pour but de rendre indisponible un service, d empêcher les utilisateurs légitimes d un service de l utiliser. Il peut s agir de :… …

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  • 9Les Schtroumpfs — « Schtroumpf » redirige ici. Pour les autres significations, voir Schtroumpf (homonymie). Les Schtroumpfs Série …

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  • 10Smurfing — is a term that that originated with vernacular used by the fictional characters known as The Smurfs . While speaking, Smurfs tend to replace a verb with some form of the word smurf (example: I feel like smurfing some bread, instead of, I feel… …

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