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Ping of Death Attack - technical definition
Uses IP
fragmentation to crash computers.
This kind of attack was so named because the Ping
program built into Windows in earlier years easily could be told to fragment packets.
See Also: Attack; Fragmentation; Internet Protocol (IP); Packet; Ping or Packet Internet Groper.
Graham, R. Hacking Lexicon. [Online, 2001.] Robert Graham Website.
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/resource_files/documentation/hacking-dict.html.