SYN flood
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syn-flood-201-7781780
title:
SYN flood
text:
A SYN flood is a form of denial-of-service attack on data communications in which an attacker rapidly initiates a connection to a server without finalizing the connection. The server has to spend resources waiting for half-opened connections, which can consume enough resources to make the system unresponsive to legitimate traffic. The packet that the attacker sends is the SYN packet, a part of TCP's three-way handshake used to establish a connection.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Denial-of-service attack
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYN_flood
date created:
date modified:
2023-10-16T19:29:50Z
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