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Submitted by tunde_lagos· Mar 5, 2026Communication and Network Security
Question
In a basic SYN flood attack, what is the attacker attempting to achieve?
Options
- AExceed the threshold limit of the connection queue for a given service
- BSet the threshold to zero for a given service
- CCause the buffer to overflow, allowing root access
- DFlush the register stack, allowing hijacking of the root account
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Topics
#SYN flood#DoS attack#TCP/IP handshake#network attack