What Is Land Attack; What Is Brute-Force Attack; What Is Ip Spoofing Attack; What Are The Default Acl Firewall Rules In Prestige - ZyXEL Communications Prestige 2802HW(L)-IX Support Notes

Prestige 2802HW(L)-Ix Support Notes

What is LAND attack?

In a LAN attack, hackers flood SYN packets to the network with a spoofed source IP address of the
targeted system. This makes it appear as if the host computer sent the packets to itself, making the system
unavailable while the target system tries to respond to itself.

What is Brute-force attack?

A Brute-force attack, such as 'Smurf' attack, targets a feature in the IP specification known as directed or
subnet broadcasting, to quickly flood the target network with useless data. A Smurf hacker flood a
destination IP address of each packet is the broadcast address of the network, the router will broadcast the
ICMP echo request packet to all hosts on the network. If there are numerous hosts, this will create a large
amount of ICMP echo request packet, the resulting ICMP traffic will not only clog up the 'intermediary'
network, but will also congest the network of the spoofed source IP address, known as the 'victim'
network. This flood of broadcast traffic consumes all available bandwidth, making communications
impossible.

What is IP Spoofing attack?

Many DoS attacks also use IP Spoofing as part of their attack. IP Spoofing may be used to break into
systems, to hide the hacker's identity, or to magnify the effect of the DoS attack. IP Spoofing is a
technique used to gain unauthorized access to computers by tricking a router or firewall into thinking that
the communications are coming from within the trusted network. To engage in IP Spoofing, a hacker
must modify the packet headers so that it appears that the packets originate from a trusted host and should
be allowed through the router or firewall.

What are the default ACL firewall rules in Prestige?

There are two default ACLs pre-configured in the Prestige, one allows all connections from LAN to
WAN and the other blocks all connections from WAN to LAN except of the DHCP packets.
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