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How does an attacking host initiate a SYN flood attack?
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Vulnerability Exploitation & Privilege Escalation
Question
How does an attacking host initiate a SYN flood attack?
Options
- AIt sends many SYN-ACK packets to a target machine from a spoofed address
- BIt sends many SYN packets to a target machine from a spoofed address
- CIt sends many SYN-RST packets to a target machine from a spoofed address
- DIt sends many SYN-FIN packets to a target machine from a spoofed address
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Topics
#SYN flood#DoS attack#TCP handshake#IP spoofing