FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -A SYN flood, also known as a TCP SYN flood, is a type of denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that sends massive numbers of SYN requests to a server to overwhelm it with open connections.

Detailed explanation-2: -SYN Flood DDoS Attack A SYN flood is a Layer 4 DDoS (infrastructure) attack method in which attackers send a huge flood of TCP SYN packets, often with a forged sender address to the server. SYN flood DDoS attacks bring down a network connection by using up the number of available connections the server can accept.

Detailed explanation-3: -A SYN flood (half-open attack) is a type of denial-of-service (DDoS) attack which aims to make a server unavailable to legitimate traffic by consuming all available server resources.

Detailed explanation-4: -A TCP SYN flood DDoS attack occurs when the attacker floods the system with SYN requests in order to overwhelm the target and make it unable to respond to new real connection requests. It drives all of the target server’s communications ports into a half-open state.