What is a SYN attack or flood?
A. The SYN (TCP connection request) attack is a common denial of service (DoS) technique characterized by the following pattern:
- Using a spoofed IP address not in use on the Internet, an attacker sends multiple SYN packets to the target machine.
- For each SYN packet received, the target machine allocates resources and sends an acknowledgement (SYN-ACK) to the source IP address.
- Because the target machine doesn’t receive a…
