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Network Security

A SYN flood is a form of volumetric denial-of-service (DoS) attack that overwhelms a server with connection requests to consume network bandwidth.

Explanation

A SYN flood abuses the TCP handshake by sending SYN packets without completing the final ACK, leaving half-open connections and exhausting connection-state resources. It is classified primarily as a network-protocol attack, although a large SYN flood can also saturate network capacity.

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