ping storm n.
A form of DoS attack consisting
of a flood of ping requests (normally used to check network
conditions) designed to disrupt the normal activity of a system.
This act is sometimes called `ping lashing' or `ping flood'.
Compare mail storm, broadcast storm.
A form of DoS attack consisting
of a flood of ping requests (normally used to check network
conditions) designed to disrupt the normal activity of a system.
This act is sometimes called `ping lashing' or `ping flood'.
Compare mail storm, broadcast storm.
Related:
- ping
[from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1.
n. Slang term for a small network message (ICMP... - ping: [from the TCP/IP acronym `Packet INternet Groper',
prob. originally contrived to match the submariners'... - broadcast storm n.
[common] An incorrect packet
broadcast on a network that causes most hosts to respond all at
once,
typically with wrong answers that start the process... - mail storm n.
[from broadcast storm, influenced by
`maelstrom'] What often happens when a machine with an Internet
connection and active users re-connects after extended downtime -
a flood of incoming mail that brings the machine to... - exploit n.
[originally cracker slang] 1. A vulnerability
in software that can be used for breaking security or otherwise
attacking an Internet host over the network.
The Ping O' Death is a famous exploit. exploits... - Ping O' Death n.
A notorious exploit that (when
first discovered) could be easily used to crash a wide variety of
machines by overunning size limits in their TCP/IP stacks.
First revealed in late 1996. The open-source Unix... - The vulcan-death-grip ping has been
applied... - Ping-pong players always smash
balls... - blargh /blarg/ n.
[MIT; now common] The opposite of
ping,
sense 5; an exclamation indicating that one has absorbed...
From the same category:
- Eric Conspiracy n.
A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers
named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous
talk.bizarre posting ca.
1987; this was doubtless influenced ... - nontrivial adj.
Requiring real thought or significant
computing power.
Often used as an understated way of saying that a ... - gas
[as in `gas chamber'] 1. interj. A term of disgust
and hatred,
implying that gas should be dispensed in generous ... - mod vt.,n.
[very common] 1. Short for `modify' or
`modification'.
Very commonly used -- in fact the full terms are... - batbelt n.
Many hackers routinely hang numerous devices
such as pagers,
cell-phones, personal organizers, leatherman multitools...
