fraggle attack

English

Etymology

The original proof-of-concept code, in the C programming language, was called fraggle.c.

Noun

fraggle attack (plural fraggle attacks)

  1. (computing, security) A particular variation of the smurf attack, using UDP traffic bearing the victim's spoofed IP address sent to certain standard ports.
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