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reflector attack: a standalone construct

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Computer security

a distributed denial-of-service attack in which spoofed requests make innocent servers send their replies to the victim.

In computer security, reflector attack refers to a distributed denial-of-service attack in which spoofed requests make innocent servers send their replies to the victim. This meaning comes from Paxson (2001) in ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review.[1]

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References

Paxson, V. (2001). An analysis of using reflectors for distributed denial-of-service attacks. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 31(3), 38-47. https://doi.org/10.1145/505659.505664

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