Ping of Death<p>A ping of death is an attack that involves sending a distorted or otherwise malicious ping to a computer with the intent of overflowing the input buffers of the destination machine and causing it to crash. A ping of death is fragmented into groups of 8 octets before transmission.</p> <p>See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_of_death">Ping of Death</a></p>