Data flood |
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Risk Level: | Medium | Check or Attack Name: dataflood |
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Platforms: | Any | |
Description: | Sending a large amount of data to a system can be used as a denial of service attack. This attack exhausts available computer resources so that the system cannot respond to other user requests. |
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Remedy: | As of December 1998, there is currently no fix for the Data Flood vulnerability. |
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References: |
Know Your Risks |