TCP SYN flood is where an attacker sends seemingly normal SYN requests to a server which cause it to respond with SYN-ACK packets. This causes the target machine to slowly run out of memory as it waits for ACK packets from the attacker.
TCP SYN flood is where an attacker sends seemingly normal SYN requests to a server which cause it to respond with SYN-ACK packets. This causes the target machine to slowly run out of memory as it waits for ACK packets from the attacker.