Ping-Of-Death Attack

A type of DoS. A teardrop attack occurs when an attacker exploits a bug in an operating system. The bug exists in the routines used to reassemble fragmented packets. An attacker sends numerous specially formatted fragmented packets to the victim, which causes the system to freeze or crash.
[view]

A type of DoS. A land attack occurs when the attacker sends numerous SYN packets to a victim and the SYN packets have been spoofed to use the same source and destination IP address and port number as the victim’s. This causes the victim to think
[view]

A type of DoS. A stream attack occurs when a large number of packets are sent to numerous ports on the victim system using random source and sequence numbers. The processing performed by the victim system attempting to make sense of the data will result in a DoS. Also referred to as flooding.
[view]

A skill by which an unauthorized person gains the trust of someone inside an organization and encourages the victim to make a change to the IT system in order to grant the attacker access. It can also be used as a means to trick a victim into disclosing information to the attacker. An attack based on deceiving users or administrators at the target site. For example, a person who illegally enters computer systems by persuading an authorized person to reveal IDs, passwords, and other confidential information.
[view]

A piece of a packet. When a router is forwarding an IP packet to a network with a Maximum Transmission Unit smaller than the packet size, it is forced to break up that packet into multiple fragments. These fragments will be reassembled by the IP layer at the destination host. When a network receives a packet larger than its maximum allowable packet size, it breaks it up into two or more fragments. These fragments are each assigned a size (corresponding to the length of the fragment) and an offset (corresponding to the starting location of the fragment).
[view]