A User Datagram Protocol (UDP) bomb can halt your entire internal network with a single packet.

A hacker with a 300-baud modem can flood your internal network with so much information that no additional work can be done.

  • The hacker sends a packet to one of your server's character-generator ports, spoofing as if it came from the echo port of another computer on your network.
  • The chargen port on the first server sends characters to the echo port on the second server, which echoes them back to the chargen port on the first server.
  • Network and servers becomes saturated and your system ceases normal operations.