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SYN Flood attack explained

DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attacks use different methods of attack. While basic of flooding an host with a high quantity of traffic remain the same, some DDoS techniques are more effective...

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Ping Of Death attack explained

The type of denial-of-service (or “DoS”) known as the Ping of Death (or “POD”) is an attack in which the attacker deliberately sends oversized ping packets to the target computer. Ping packets are...

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Smurf Attack explained

A Smurf attack is a denial-of-service (or ‘DoS’) attack from the ’90s based around a ping packet driven offense. At the time, they were known as one of the worst methods of DoS attack the internet had...

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Teardrop attack explained (Legacy attack)

A Teardrop attack is an older type of denial-of-service (DoS) attack, which affects machines running the Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT operating systems, as well as older Linux...

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ICMP Flood attack explained

An ICMP flood attack is a method of denial-of-service (or ‘DoS’) attack otherwise known as a ‘ping flood’. An ICMP flood is one of the simplest ping-based DoS attacks, largely what it sounds like, in...

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ICMP Nuke attack explained

ICMP nukes (‘Click’ attacks) are an old method of denial-of-service (or ‘DoS’) attacks that involve the use of corrupted ICMP – Internet Control Message Protocol – packets to shut down connections....

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DNS Amplification Attack Explained

The internet acronym DNS stands for domain name server. These are the servers which translated the “www” web addresses, which humans understand and remember, into the numeric IP addresses, which...

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How DDoS SYN Flood Works

We have investigated the denial of service or synchronized (SYN) flood attacks that have been occurring lately. The attacker’s goal is to send enough incomplete SYN requests to overwhelm the victim’s...

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What is a DDoS Attack?

A distributed denial of service attack, or DDoS attack, is method that can be used to force a particular website offline for an extended length of time. Unlike conventional electronic attacks, there is...

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