Ping Flood Attack
A ping is a commonly used ICMP diagnostic for determining network packet loss and throughput issues.
The ping flood attack is used for DDoS attacks, where the attacker overwhelms the victim with ping packets.
Rate limiting ping requests and effective security control requiring user IP addresses to be privileged is good controls against this type of attack.
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