What Is a UDP Scan

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What is a UDP scan?

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Definitions:

Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks

Malicious attempts to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service, or network by overwhelming it with a flood of Internet traffic.

Botnet

A network of computers infected by malware that are controlled as a group without the owners' knowledge, usually to send spam or launch attacks.

Firewall

A network security device that monitors and filters incoming and outgoing network traffic based on an organization's previously established security policies.

Hacker

Anyone who unlawfully breaks into a computer system (whether an individual computer or a network).