Programa que
envía el mismo mensaje o texto de manera reiterada y masiva, pretendiendo así
producir un efecto de saturación, colapso o inundación (de ahí su nombre,
inundador) en sistemas de mensajería instantánea como MSN Messenger.
http://www.alerta-antivirus.es/seguridad/ver_pag.html?tema=S
An attack that attempts to
cause a failure in a system by providing more input than the system can process
properly. [CNSSI_4009:2010]
1. (I) An attack that
attempts to cause a failure in a system by providing more input than the system
can process properly. (See:
denial of service, fairness. Compare: jamming.) [RFC4949:2007]
Sending large numbers of
messages to a host or network at a high rate. In this publication, it
specifically refers to wireless access points. [NIST-SP800-94:2007]
An attack that attempts to
cause a failure in (especially, in the security of) a computer system or other
data processing entity by providing more input than the entity can process
properly.
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