fraggle attack

noun

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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Meanings

nounfraggle attack (plural fraggle attacks)

plural fraggle attacks

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

Origin

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

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