Common Network Security Threats
Smurf It’s a version of Denial of Service attack – floods the victim with spoofed broadcast pings. A large number of pings are sent to the IP broadcast address of the victim, it responds back with broadcast to all the hosts – and these hosts simultaneously reply – causing a major lock in the network. Ping of Death A funny ping – ICMP packet is sent to the victim – which floods its buffer, causing the system to reboot or the network getting hanged. ...