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UDP Flood

#Attacks

UDP flood is a network-based DoS attack carried out by sending large amounts of UDP packets to a remote host’s ports.

Teardrop Attack

#Attacks

A DDoS attack carried out using fragmented packets with an offset, based on exploiting a TCP/IP stack vulnerability.

IP Tunneling

#General Terms

Creating a virtual channel for data exchange between two Internet-connected networks by encapsulating traffic inside the IP protocol.

HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)

#Protocols

HTTP is the World Wide Web protocol used for data communication between web servers and clients.

SSDP (Simple Service Discovery Protocol)

#Protocols

SSDP is a network protocol used in small-sized networks, such as residential ones, for advertising and discovery of network services, primarily the ones supported by the Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP) architecture. Features of SSDP are used in DDoS attacks of the SSDP amplification type.

TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)

#Protocols

TCP is a transport layer protocol in the OSI model, one of the main protocols of the Internet protocol suite.

SSL Protocol and SSL Certificate

#Protocols

SSL is a protocol for cryptographically secure data exchange using popular Internet protocols. SSL certificates are used to verify that a public key belongs to its actual owner.

HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security)

#Protocols

HSTS is a mechanism that forces a web client and server to establish an HTTPS-based secure connection at once, without first using the unprotected HTTP protocol.

UDP (User Datagram Protocol)

#Protocols

UDP is a protocol for sending messages (datagrams) to other hosts without error checking or correction.