Security Topics
SYN Flood Attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FPawMupsKY An illustration of TCP SYN Flood Attacks A TCP SYN flood is a type of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that aims to overwhelm the target system with a flood of connection requests. The attack is named after the SYN packet, which is used to initiate a TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) connection. When the target system receives a SYN packet, …
May 16, 2022
Teardrop Attack
A teardrop attack is a special kind of denial of service attack that involves sending malformed network packets to the target machine. Specifically, the packets contain mangled IP fragments with overlapping, oversized payloads. This can crash various operating systems because of a bug in their TCP/IP fragmentation re-assembly code. Windows 3.1x, Windows 95 and Windows NT operating systems, as well …
May 15, 2022
Distributed Denial of Service Attack
https://youtu.be/YcH7qx6HTII A denial of service (DoS) attack is a type of cyber attack that aims to disrupt the normal operation of a service by overwhelming it with a flood of traffic, requests, or connections. This can overload the available bandwidth or resources of the targeted server or network, causing it to become unavailable or unstable. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks …
May 15, 2022