Slowloris (Session Attacks)

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A type of DoS attacks targeting streaming web servers – the attacker tries to establish many HTTP connections with the targeted server and keep them open as long as possible by sending partial requests and HTTP headers, with the requests never completing. With the server keeping the connections open, its pool of simultaneous connections eventually maxes out, so the server begins to refuse further connections to clients.

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RST/FIN Flood

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DoS attacks against TCP servers that exploit vulnerabilities in TCP-SYN session closure: a server overload is achieved by sending a flood of forged RST or FIN packets.

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SYN/ACK Flood

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

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