Inundación

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·         Denegación de servicio

·         Inundación IP

·         Inundación ICMP

·         SYN flood

Inundador

Programa que envía el mismo mensaje o texto de manera reiterada y masiva, pretendiendo así producir un efecto de saturación, colapso o inundación (de ahí su nombre, inundador) en sistemas de mensajería instantánea como MSN Messenger.

http://www.alerta-antivirus.es/seguridad/ver_pag.html?tema=S

(en) flooding

An attack that attempts to cause a failure in a system by providing more input than the system can process properly. [CNSSI_4009:2010]

(en) flooding

1. (I) An attack that attempts to cause a failure in a system by providing more input than the system can process properly. (See: denial of service, fairness. Compare: jamming.) [RFC4949:2007]

(en) Flooding

Sending large numbers of messages to a host or network at a high rate. In this publication, it specifically refers to wireless access points. [NIST-SP800-94:2007]

(en) Flooding

An attack that attempts to cause a failure in (especially, in the security of) a computer system or other data processing entity by providing more input than the entity can process properly.

http://www.sans.org/security-resources/glossary-of-terms/

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