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• 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 community patched its systems to remove the vulnerability within days or weeks, the closed-source OS vendors generally took months....
• ping: [from the TCP/IP acronym `Packet INternet Groper', prob.
  originally contrived to match the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] n....
• ping [from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1.
  . Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO) sent by a computer to check for the presence and alertness of another....
• cracking n. [very common] The act of breaking into a computer system
  what a cracker does. Contrary to widespread myth, this does not usually involve some mysterious leap of hackerly brilliance, but rather persistence and the dogged repetition of a handful of fairly well-known tricks that exploit common weaknesses in the security of target systems....
• cracking: n. The act of breaking into a computer system
  what a {cracker} does. Contrary to widespread myth, this does not usually involve some mysterious leap of hackerly brilliance, but rather persistence and the dogged repetition of a handful of fairly well-known tricks that exploit common weaknesses in the security of target systems....
• Look Out! It's Microsoft Outlook An old maxim in the Unix community states, "All programs expand until they can read mail.
  .. except Microsoft Outlook." Well, that's no longer true....
• cript kiddies pl.n. The lowest form of cracke
  script kiddies do mischief with scripts and programs written by others, often without understanding the exploit....
• ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
  ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....
• ode n. 1. [Internet, UUCP] A host machine on the network.
  2. [MS-DOS BBSes] A dial-in line on a BBS. Thus an MS-DOS sysop might say that his BBS has 4 nodes even though it has a single machine and no Internet link, confusing an Internet hacker no end....