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Ping of Death (PoD) is a sort of DoS attack in which an attacker sends faulty or large data packets using the simple ping command to crash, destabilize, or freeze the targeted machine or service. This kind of DoS attack leverages patched legacy weaknesses. In 1997, a flaw in the implementation of how operating systems […]
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