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Submitted by andres_qro· Apr 18, 2026Network and Communications Security
Question
What is called an attack in which an attacker floods a system with connection requests but does not respond when the target system replies to those requests?
Options
- APing of death attack
- BSYN attack
- CSmurf attack
- DBuffer overflow attack
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Topics
#Denial of Service#SYN flood#TCP/IP attacks#Network security