Icmp Glossary

Browse 2 icmp terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

2 Icmp Terms

Ping Flood

A denial-of-service attack that overwhelms a target with large numbers of ICMP echo requests, consuming bandwidth, CPU, or response handling capacity. Ping...

Ping of Death

A classic network attack that used oversized or malformed IP fragments to create an illegal reassembled packet, crashing or destabilizing vulnerable systems...

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