smurf attack
Related to smurf attack: LAND attack, Ping of death
smurf attack
slang A distributed-denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that spoofs an intended victim's source IP and uses it to broadcast large numbers of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets to a large computer network in order to receive an overwhelming number of responses. The company's website has been down for nearly 72 hours after being hit by a smurf attack.
See also: attack, smurf
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- a non-denial denial
- denial
- non
- be in denial
- what part of no don't you understand?
- in denial
- spit in (one's) eye
- spit in someone's eye
- denial is not (just) a river in Egypt
- like fun