PING attack - How bad is it?

Computers and Security

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 332-337

  Kumar, Sanjeev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer security; Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS); ICMP; PING attack; Processor exhaustion

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SECURITY OF DATA; SERVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WEBSITES;

DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE (DDOS); ICMP; PING ATTACK; PROCESSOR EXHAUSTION;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 33746715594     PISSN: 01674048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2005.11.004     Document Type: Article

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