Catchword: phlashing

Filed Under: English, Online, Technology, New or Nonce

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: You don’t have to take an ax to a piece of hardware to perform a so-called permanent denial-of-service (PDOS) attack. A researcher this week will demonstrate a PDOS attack that can take place remotely. A PDOS attack damages a system so badly that it requires replacement or reinstallation of hardware.…Smith will demonstrate how network-enabled systems firmware is susceptible to a remote PDOS attack—which he calls “phlashing”—this week at the EUSecWest security conference in London.

Article or Document Title:
“Permanent Denial-of-Service Attack Sabotages Hardware” (URL)

Author:
Kelly Jackson Higgins

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Dark Reading

Date of Publication:
May 19, 2008

This catchword has yet to be researched.