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Teardrop Attack

Last Updated May 24, 2021 1:56 pm
Vangie Beal
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A DoS attack where fragmented packets are forged to overlap each other when the receiving host tries to reassemble them.

See also DoS attack.

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Vangie Beal is a freelance business and technology writer covering Internet technologies and online business since the late '90s.

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