AirLive RS-2500 - Manual (Page 246)

24. Specifications
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h as Code Red. Multiple propagation
inutes.
succession of
YN requests to a target's system.
e particular variant of a flooding DoS attack on the public Internet. It
lies on misconfigured network devices that allow packets to be sent to all computer hosts
n a particular network via the broadcast address of the network, rather than a specific
urf amplifier. In such an attack, the
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gitimate packets from getting through to their destination.
lood attack is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack using the User Datagram Protocol
ing of Death
is the attacks of tremendous trash data in PING packets that hackers send to cause
function. This attack can cause network speed to slow down, or even make it
Spoofing
guise themselves as trusted users of the network in Spoof attacks. They use a
Nimda
Nimda is a computer worm, and is also a file infector. It quickly spread, eclipsing the
economic damage caused by past outbreaks suc
ectors allowed Nimda to become the Internet’s most widespread virus/worm within 22 v
m
SYN Flood
A SYN flood is a form of denial-of-service attack in which an attacker sends a
S
ICMP Flood
A smurf attack is on
re
o
machine. The network then serves as a sm
perpetrators will send large numbers of IP packets with the source address faked to appear
to be the address of the victim. The network's bandwidth is quickly used up, preventin
le
UDP Flood
A UDP f
(UDP), a sessionless/connectionless computer networking protocol.
Using UDP for denial-of-service attacks is not as straightforward as with the Transmission
Control Protocol (TCP). However, a UDP flood attack can be initiated by sending a large
number of UDP packets to random ports on a remote host.
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System mal
necessary to restart the computer to get a normal operation.
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Hackers dis
fake identity to try to pass through the firewall system and invade the network.