Tag: Denialofservice
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