EC-Council
312-50V7 · Question #2
SYN Flood is a DOS attack in which an attacker deliberately violates the three-way handshake and opens a large number of half-open TCP connections. The signature of attack for SYN Flood contains:
The correct answer is B. A large number of SYN packets appearing on a network without the corresponding reply packets. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
SYN Flood is a DOS attack in which an attacker deliberately violates the three-way handshake and opens a large number of half-open TCP connections. The signature of attack for SYN Flood contains:
Options
- AThe source and destination address having the same value
- BA large number of SYN packets appearing on a network without the corresponding reply packets
- CThe source and destination port numbers having the same value
- DA large number of SYN packets appearing on a network with the corresponding reply packets
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(51 responses)- A8% (4)
- B76% (39)
- C12% (6)
- D4% (2)
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