Smurf Attack 101: History, M.O., Consequences

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The Smurf Attack is one of the oldest, simplest and effective cyber-attacks, one that can draw down many unpleasant consequences for any targeted company. Before trying to understand what is a Smurf Attack, we must first understand the concepts of DoS and DDoS. Denial-of-Service or Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks generally try to make a network’s resources […]

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