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See Smurf attack, Ping flood, and Ping of death
This is one particular variant of a flooding DoS attack on the public Internet. It relies on misconfigured network devices that allow packets to be sent to all computer hosts on a particular network via the broadcast address of the network, rather than a specific machine. The network then serves as a smurf amplifier. In such an attack, the perpetrators will send large numbers of IP packets with the source address faked to appear to be the address of the victim. To combat Denial of Service attacks on the Internet, services like the Smurf Amplifier Registry have given network service providers the ability to identify misconfigured networks and to take appropriate action such as filtering.

Certifications

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	Association of Certified Fraud Examiners The Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) designation is a vendor neutral cert and is good to have for those interested in financial fraud examination
	Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator A computer forensic certification offered by EC Council. The CHFI certification is awarded after successfully passing the exam EC0 312-49
	Computer Forensics (U.S.) A free online certification offered by Brainbench. Is a good cert for the beginners
	Certified Forensic Computer Examiner Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE) - is a great vendor neutral certification, which is open to law enforcement members only.
	EnCase Certified Examiner EnCase Certified Examiner (EnCE) - is a computer forensic certification using the Encase Software package.
	Certified Computer Examiner Certified Computer Examiner (CCE) - is a great vendor neutral certification, which is open to anyone and can be taken over the internet.

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