What is Permanent Denial of Service (PDoS)?

A Permanent Denial of Service attack, or a PDoS attack, is denial-of-service via the intentional sabotage of hardware. Phlashing is one such method of PDoS. An attacker bricks a device or destroys firmware by uploading a corrupted BIOS to a device, or via remote administration of the management interface, effectively making the device and/or an … Continue reading What is Permanent Denial of Service (PDoS)?