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Glossary

ENSmurf 
1. Software that mounts a denial-of-service attack ("smurfing") by exploiting IP broadcast addressing and ICMP ping packets to cause flooding.

(Source: RFC 2828)

2. An attack that exploits features of the IP protocol within the TCP/IP protocol.

(Source: ISO/IEC 27002:2005)


TC/SC:57Terms     Info     Publications
Published in:IEC 62351-2, ed. 1.0 (2008-08) Terms     Info
Reference number:2.2.188
Source:RFC 2828, ISO/IEC 27002:2005

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