Last week we discussed ports in some detail. This week, even more detail. To understand how ports work and the ways they behave, we need to understand how TCP/IP functions. Ports are numbered from one ...

I'm looking for a numeric definition of a sYN flood. i.e. How many SYN packets without an ACK would it take to constitute a "flood". We're needing a definition to establish a threshold past which less ...

An assault on a network that prevents a TCP/IP server from servicing other users. It is accomplished by not sending the final acknowledgment to the server's SYN-ACK response (SYNchronize-ACKnowledge) ...

The procedure that takes place between two TCP/IP nodes to establish a connection. Known as the "SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK handshake," computer A transmits a SYNchronize packet to computer B, which sends back ...

This may end up being a more windows-centric question, but thought I'd give it a shot here. TL;DR version: Does a RST packet shorten or eliminate the normal 2MSL timeout needed before a tcp socket can ...

The specific type of TCP attack used in the recent spate of DDoS efforts were TCP SYN-ACK reflection attacks. The last 30 days has seen a renewed increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ...