SYN/ACK Flood

What is SYN/ACK attack?

SYN/ACK flood is a type of DoS attack targeting TCP servers. It involves sending a huge flood of spoofed packets with both SYN flag and ACK flag set, which causes a server overload.

You might also want to learn:

• what a TCP handshake is,
• about using DDoS Protection for TCP/UDP Services.