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Known Vulnerabilities

DDoS

ICMP Flooding

Also known as "Ping of death"

The ping of death is a form of denial-of-service (DoS) attack that occurs when an attacker crashes, destabilizes, or freezes computers or services by targeting them with oversized data packets

DNS

Spoofing

Also known as DNS Poisoning

During a DNS poisoning attack, a hacker substitutes the address for a valid website for an imposter. Once completed, that hacker can steal valuable information, like passwords and account numbers. Or the hacker can simply refuse to load the spoofed site