COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY
TYPES OF NETWORK SECURITY
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Denial of Service (DoS)
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Distributed DoS (DDoS)
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SYN Flood
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Spoofing
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Detailed explanation-1: -TCP SYN flood (a.k.a. SYN flood) is a type of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that exploits part of the normal TCP three-way handshake to consume resources on the targeted server and render it unresponsive.
Detailed explanation-2: -In a DoS land (Local Area Network Denial) attack, the attacker sends a TCP SYN spoofed packet where source and destination IPs and ports are set to be identical. When the target machine tries to reply, it enters a loop, repeatedly sending replies to itself which eventually causes the victim machine to crash.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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-5: -Flood attacks are also known as Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. In a flood attack, attackers send a very high volume of traffic to a system so that it cannot examine and allow permitted network traffic.