SYN attack

Also known as a SYN flood, a SYN attack is a type of Denial of Service (DOS) attack on a computer or network that floods a network with spoofed SYN packets or packets that contain an address that never responds to the SYN/ACK requests.

Also see: DOS, Network definitions, Security definitions, SYN

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