Tribe Flood Network
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The Tribe Flood Network or TFN is a set of computer programs to conduct various DDoS attacks such as ICMP flood, SYN flood, UDP flood and Smurf attack
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First TFN initiated attacks are described in CERT
Incident Note 99-04
TFN2K was written by Mixter
, a security professional and hacker based in Germany.
Smurf attack
The Smurf attack is a way of generating significant computer network traffic on a victim network. This is a type of denial-of-service attack that floods a target system via spoofed broadcast ping messages....
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First TFN initiated attacks are described in CERT
CERT Coordination Center
The CERT Coordination Center was created by DARPA in November 1988 after the Morris worm struck. It is a major coordination center in dealing with Internet security problems....
Incident Note 99-04
TFN2K was written by Mixter
Mixter
Mixter is a computer security specialist. Mixter first made the transition out of the computer underground into large-scale public awareness, in 2000, at which time newspapers and magazines worldwide mentioned a link to a massively destructive and effective, Distributed Denial of Service attacks...
, a security professional and hacker based in Germany.
External links
- Tribe Flood Network
- TFN2K - An Analysis by Jason Barlow and Woody Thrower of AXENT Security Team
- TFN2K source code