What Is Ping Of Death?
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The Ping of Death is a type of malicious attack on computer systems that sends an oversized ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) packet to a targeted system. Because the targeted system is unable to process the oversized packet, it crashes or freezes, resulting in a denial of service. The Ping of Death attack is a type of DoS (Denial of Service) attack.