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Hiding open ports with shimmer

Posted Jan 10, 2008 18:06 UTC (Thu) by shemminger (subscriber, #5739)
Parent article: Hiding open ports with shimmer

Didn't anyone see the Denial of service that shimmer could cause?
If a hacker wants to keep someone from using the system (like an administrator), he can just
send forged IP packets to cause the blocker to kick in.

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