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    Teardrop Attack

    Last Updated May 24, 2021 1:56 pm
    Vangie Beal
    Written by Vangie Beal
    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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