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Definitions for "Land Attack"
Keywords:  denial, spoofed, crash, destination, packet
Related Terms: Dos attack, Syn flood, Denial-of-service, Denial of service attack, Denial of service, Ddos attack, Distributed denial-of-service attack, Ddos, Ping of death, Distributed denial of service attack, Syn attack, Smurf attack, Denial-of-service attack, Tn3270 , Smurfing, Netbios, Bastion host, Netware, Network operating system, Ncp , Target , Port scanner , Port scan, Traceroute, Port scanning, Honey pot, Ip spoofing, Host system, Network basic input/output system, Ping, Active attack, Nos, Host computer, Windows for workgroups, Netbeui, Novell netware, Node, Uucp, Rlogin, Distributed system, Teardrop , Lan manager, Packet filter, Cyberterrorism, Remote login, Service, Terminal emulation, Vip, Beowulf cluster, Socket
A type of Denial of Service (DOS) attack which confuses and crashes a number of Operating Systems (especially Windows 95) or uses up the CPU so the system can't do anything else (such as in Windows NT). A Land Attack is performed by launching TCP/IP packets with the same source and destination IP address and port. There are freely available tools that anyone can download and use which will perform a Land Attack.
m5computersecurity.com
a DoS (Denial of Service) attack that consists of sending a special poison spoofed packet to a computer, causing it to lock up
teamtrinix.com
a remote denial-of-service condition caused by sending a packet to a machine with the source host/port the same as the destination host/port
eweek.com
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