Ping of Death Attack Hear it!

Ping of Death Attack Hacker Definition
Uses IP fragmentation to crash computers. This kind of attack was so named because the Ping program built into Windows in earlier years easily could be told to fragment packets.

See Also: Attack; Fragmentation; Internet Protocol (IP); Packet; Ping or Packet Internet Groper.

Graham, R. Hacking Lexicon. [Online, 2001.] Robert Graham Website. http://www.linuxsecurity.com/resource_files/documentation/hacking-dict.html.

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