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sPING

sPING, a variation of ping of death, is a denial of service (DoS) attack caused by an attacker deliberately sending an IP packet larger than the 65,536 bytes allowed by the IP protocol. Many operating systems do not know how to handle an oversized packet, so they may get frozen, crashed, or rebooted.

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